[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#937029: Suggested removal of mgltools from Debian (Was: SVN to Git migration status)

[Andreas Tille]

Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -1 ROM: Please remove package mgltools-pmv

As the discussion below and the bug log shows:  mgltools-pmv does not
start and nobody seems to have a clue to make it work.

Kind regards, Andreas.

On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 09:21:33PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi again - again,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:46:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 02:24:18PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > > >    * RC-buggy (#855494 :-()
> > > > This should have been addressed with that one upload of mine that apparently
> > > > had been lost before when the bug was addressed by upstream about two years
> > > > ago.
> > > 
> > > But the program does not yet start. :-(
> > 
> > Since a mgltools part now received a bug report (#883845) which I feel
> > responsible to some extend since I once cared for the removal of the
> > non-free image,
> 
> I fixed this bug in mgltools-vision and when doing so I realisied that
> it is not my fault that the image popped up in the source tarball again.
> Its just the non-default way to create the upstream source (and thus my
> point that its a bad idea how this source is obtained is proven by
> another issue).
> 
> > I hereby want to request a clear commitment of the
> > persons mentioned in the Uploaders field whether bug #855494 will be
> > fixed **soon** (= until 24.12.) to know whether it is worth spending
> > some effort into it,
> 
> I'm a bit sad that my expectation that there was no commitment shown for
> the issue which keeps my motivation high to ask for removal of the
> package.
> 
> In any case I took over the migration from SVN to Git since I now
> migrated *all* packaging stuff in SVN (also prospective packages) and so
> even may be removal candidates packaging might serve some purpose in
> case somebody will take over later again.
> 
> When doing the migration I realised that there was packaging code for
> 
> 
> mgltools-cmolkit (1.5.7-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
> 
>   * New upstream version (Closes: #767144,#783547,
>                           lp:#821299,lp:1386091,lp:#1386163,lp:#1492762)
> 
>  -- Steffen Moeller <moeller at debian.org>  Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:54:14 +0200
> 
> 
> in SVN and all other mgltools-* packages are featuring upstream version
> 1.5.7 but cmolkit is remaining at 1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424 which is most
> probably unwanted.  If the get-orig-source method would not have failed
> I would have injected the upgraded source but it did not worked :-(((
> 
> > or whether it is better to ask for removal since
> > we have no manpower to solve RC bugs.
> 
> I'll wait with the request for removal until after our sprint. 
> 
> One more word to the "ftpmasters don't like a tarball of tarballs" [1]
> workaround:  There should be other ways to deal with this "don't like"
> than putting 20 times multiple work than necessary to switch to new
> versions.  It took me an additional day in the SVN to Git migration.
> Thus I removed myself from Uploaders which means I'll now consequently
> leave the additional work to the remaining Uploaders who seem to prefer
> this kind of workflow.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2017/12/msg00010.html
> 
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