Bug#885180: RM: hepmc -- RoQA; unmaintained, does not build for > 2 years

[Aurelien Jarno]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

hepmc does not build with gcc-5 or later (see bug#777901), and thus
requires a gcc 4.x to build, which has been last shipped in Jessie. This
problem has been forwarded upstream, but hasn't been fixed yet. This
problem has been there for almost 3 years and nobody seems to care about
it.

In addition to that hepmc build-depends on a package which is not
anymore in the archive (see bug#867090). Again nobody seems to care
about that, even if the bug is "only" 6 months old.

This package hasn't been part of the Stretch release and hasn't seen any
Debian upload or upstream activity for more than 5 years. I therefore
recommend to just remove this package from the archive. If someone
finally wants to maintain it and if upstream restarts its activity, it's
always possible to get the latest version of the package from
snapshot.debian.org.