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

[Niels Thykier]

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