[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#831548: RM: mtasc -- ROM; obsoleted by newer standard web technologies

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

Le sam. 2 juin 2018 à 08:59, Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> a écrit :

> On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 06:58:52 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 serious
> > Control: severity 831553 normal
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > The buster cycle is the right time to remove mtasc from the Debian
> > archive. It has been unmaintained in Debian and upstream for years. The
> > web ecosystem is moving away from Flash towards standard web tech,
> > which can now replace most use of Flash. Debian should encourage our
> > upstreams to move towards standard web tech like HTML5 and JavaScript.
> >
> > Please talk to your upstreams about transitioning away from
> > ActionScript 2 towards HTML5 JavaScript. If they need to still
> > support Flash for some users, then they should switch to something
> > like Haxe but they should not build Flash files by default.
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:29:50 -0500 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >
> > > 15 months later all but one of those bugs is still open.  Can you
> either work
> > > with the maintainers to get them done or close this request until it's
> ripe
> > > for processing.
> >
> > --
> > bye,
> > pabs
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>
> Hi,
>
> This package (dojo) is officially maintained by the Javascript team but
> appears to be de facto unmaintained.  It has several RC bugs and is
> stalling the removal of obsolete packages (admittedly only from unstable).
>
> If you are still interested in maintaining the package, then please
> resolve the RC bugs (at the very least this bug, which is blocking
> others).  If there is no visible progress on resolving this bug in a
> month from now, I will assume you are no longer interested in it and
> that you will support a removal of dojo from unstable.
>
> I have explicitly included all listed maintainers and uploaders (except
> for Frank, which appears to have disclaimed interest in this package per
> #863693)
>
> Thanks,
> ~Niels
>

Will get a glimpse.

BTw it means that a few lintian warning are now fatal because ftbfs...

Bastien

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