Bug#885657: rarian: Don't release with Buster

[Ivo De Decker]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 09:44:39AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 2:54 AM Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> wrote:
> > FYI: There are still ~15-16 open bugs on the bts tagged rarian (I have
> > made them blockers via a separate update).  If the plan is still to
> > remove rarian for Buster, these bugs should be resolved before the
> > transition freeze (2019-01-12).
> 
> Thanks for the reminder. We basically just need someone to write the
> patches for this packages (several of the remaining packages need
> their buildsystem modified a bit).
> 
> I don't think anyone has worked on this recently so it might not get
> done in time for Buster, but it's still an achievable goal now.

Most of the blocking bugs are currently 'important'. If you want to get this
done for buster, it's probably a good idea to upgrade them to serious.

Looking at the rdeps, the main blocker is synaptic. If you can get a fix for
that one, the rest can probably be (auto-) removed if really necessary. 

Ivo