Bug#996843: RM: rivet -- RoQA, unmaintained, python2, lowpopcon, RC-buggy

[Tobias Frost]

Package: rivet
Severity: serious

rivet is unmaintained (see MIA bug #925075) and lacking serverily behing upsteam.
It has no reverse dependencies in Debian.
It was never part of any Debian release.

It is currently RC buggy with those bugs:
#966790 [S|  |  ] [src:rivet] rivet: Unversioned Python removal in sid/bullseye
#954648 [S|  |↝] [rivet] FTBFS with Boost 1.71

I therefore propose to RM the package, and afterwards pythia8 and hepmc, which
has basically the same state of being de-facto orphaned.

If you disagree, just close this bug, but please show the package some love.
Especially, it is in need of an human maintainer (refering to Policy 5.6.3)

If you agree, reassign the bug to ftp.debian.org

If there is no answer, I will reassing the bug in exactly 3 months
to ftp.debian.org to make the RM happen.

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tobi