[Debian-med-packaging] Removing tophat (Was: Bug#938677: Please check autopkgtest of (may be failed) attempt of Python3 port (Was: Bug#938677: tophat: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye))

[Alex Mestiashvili]

Before removing tophat I guess we need to handle the reverse deps:
   med-bio
   cufflinks
   giira
   med-cloud

med-bio and med-cloud just need to remove the tophat from the list.
cufflinks doesn't depend on Tophat, just enchances it.

So there is only giira which will suffer from tophat's removal, but it 
is also a 5 years old code never updated by upstream.
It has some popcon number, but again it uses an outdated algorithm 
provided by tophat which is not maintained anymore.

Shall I open bugs against the reverse dependencies asking to remove tophat?
Could you please advise with the common procedure for that?


Thank you,
Alex