Bug#1148695: RM: gngb -- RoM; rc-buggy, dead upstream, better alternatives available

[Simon McVittie]

Control: retitle -1 RM: gngb -- RoM; rc-buggy, dead upstream, better alternatives available
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:gbgb

On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 at 04:45:05 -0000, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>I suggest removing gngb from Debian for the following reasons:
> * It accumulated one RC-bug:
>   + #1075020: gngb: ftbfs with GCC-14
>     Last modified: 1 year, 1 month
> * It is not part of trixie or forky and is not a key package.

On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 at 09:18:38 +0200, Sébastien Noel wrote:
>My vote goes to "yes, let's remove this" :
>
>- it's dead upstream (last release was 20 years ago!)
>- depends on sdl1.2
>- we have other/better GBC emulators in the archive

I agree, let's stop this package taking up developers' time. Converting 
this to RM: RoM on behalf of the games team.

     smcv