Bug#946926: pysparse: should this package be removed?

[Sandro Tosi]

Source: pysparse
Severity: serious

Hello,
it looks like pysparse is no longer fit to remain in debian:

* python2 only
* no upstream release in 8+ years
* python3-sparse exists, as a possible alternative?

If i dont hear back within a week with a good reason to keep this package, i
will file for its removal.

Regards,
Sandro

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled