[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#886835: Should sitplus package be droped from Debian (Was: Bug#886835: sitplus fails to start because GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported)

[Olly Betts]

Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -1 RM: sitplus -- RoM; very low popcon; broken

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 10:18:51PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 09:07:38AM +1300, Olly Betts wrote:
> > 
> > It's more than a year later - has anyone shown interest in updating
> > sitplus?
> > 
> > If not, I propose to reassign this bug as an RM with ftpmaster.  The
> > package can be updated and reintroduced should somebody step forward
> > to do the work (and a new library package means it would need a trip
> > through NEW either way).
> > 
> > I realise letting go of a package is often not easy, but having a broken
> > package in unstable doesn't benefit anyone, wastes the time of unstable
> > users who try to install it only to discover it doesn't even run, and
> > incurs a cost to people managing transitions - e.g. #915592, #922597,
> > #933424.
>
> Just go for it.  Kind regards, Andreas.

Thanks for the quick confirmation - given that I've marked it as "RoM".

Cheers,
    Olly