[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1079958: Should epigrass be removed from unstable?

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Andreas,

On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 08:05:55AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> probably we should remove epigrass.  It seems way harder to get dash and
> panel trough NEW than getting epigrass accepted again once these might
> be in Debian.
> 
> Sad to see it go since it could help in the next pandemic but if its not
> working there is no point to leave it.

I think that's the sticking point here. The presence of two
long-standing RC bugs indicates that it is not in working condition. One
of the bugs is tagged pending and was dependent on dash, so afaiui, all
it would need was an upload.

> CCing Debian Med list to find motivated persons for dash ... which might
> be great for lots of scientific tools.

I'm not opposed to keeping epigrass. Really, if someone finds an hour to
save epigrass it seems like uploading the pending bug and giving an
initial diagnosis of the autopkgtest failure would be good and
sufficient reason to close this pre-removal bug at hand. If nobody can
offer this hour, I believe that removing is the better option due to the
cost of buggy packages on QA teams.

I'll leave this bug open in case someone gets interested. After one
month of inactivity the autoremover shall turn it into an RM bug.

Helmut