Bug#1080050: Should mbdyn be removed from unstable?

Andrius Merkys merkys at debian.org
Fri Aug 30 07:43:57 BST 2024


Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 RM: mbdyn -- RoM; rc-buggy
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:mbdyn

Hello,

On 2024-08-30 07:32, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> I suggest removing mbdyn from Debian for the following reasons:
>   * It accumulated one RC-bug:
>     + #999554: mbdyn: FTBFS: ISO C++17 does not allow dynamic exception specifications
>       Last modified: 2 years
> 
>   * It is not part of bookworm or trixie and is not a key package.

mbdyn should indeed be removed from unstable. I ended up not using it, 
and maintaining its Debian package proved too demanding for me.

Andrius



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