Bug#822085: RM: root-system: RoQA unmaintained, RC-buggy, FTBFS, blocks removal of old packages

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 08:14:31AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> As it is now blocking other packages, I raise the question if it should be
> removed from Debian.

It is indeed in a very bad state.


I tried to revive it some time back, and also committed something to git
for it, but really, it's a big thing and I can't deal with it within my
current spare time.  Also, that would be a (huge) one-time effort, and
clearly something like that can't be left as it is again.
So, I give up on my tentative for it, I have several other more pressing
commitments than such a huge package I'm not really even interested it
(if not for QA reasons, due to its dep chain).

The actual maintainer (explicitly CCed) seems to have disappear (note
that he is a DM, and from a quick lock at his DDPO page I see most of
his packages either uploaded long ago, with RC bugs and NMUed).

> Please response to this bug, if there is no response within a week, I will
> reassign this bug to ftp.debian.org

dak rm -Rn root-system fastjet rivet herwig++ thepeg pythia8 hepmc

This is a clean removal of root-system and everything that
(transitively) depends on it.  Most of those other packages don't have
that many issues if not the depends on root-system.
Rather than removing all of the right aways, I'd force the removal of 
libpng (and also the other old libs) breaking root-system (this will
make it uninstallable, which is yet another RC bug!) and possible all
its rdeps.
But if in some months nobody manages to have a buildable and up-to-date
root-system, I I'll go ahead and ask for RM myself.

> Please note, that if decide to keep it, you need to fix your pacakge ASAP.
> The removal of libpng1.2 will NOT wait for root-system, and when removed,
> at least the binary packages must go with it. (Which can lead to src removal)

That's not strictly needed: packages can be forcefully removed from the
archive even if something else depends on them, you "just" need to
convince ftpmasters that it's ok to break them.

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