[request-tracker-maintainers] Removal of Request Tracker 4 from Trixie

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Congrats!

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 10:57:25PM +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> All extension packages have been updated. No more rt4 extensions. Today I
> uploaded libmodule-install-rtx-perl to drop the dependency on request-
> tracker4. Once that hits Trixie, I figure we're ready to change 1030749 to
> be RC.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> On Tue, 2025-03-11 at 09:17 +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> > 
> > We don't want RT4 in Trixie. I think it is time to rip the band aid off
> > and remove it.
> > 
> > On that basis, I'll update all the extensions to drop building RT4
> > packages so that we're in a position to request removal of RT4.
> > 
> > I plan on starting this work in a couple of days. Any objections, please
> > shout out. I'll also take the opportunity to update a couple of extensions
> > to latest upstream versions.
> > 
> > We should probably also talk to the security team about helping them
> > upgrade from RT4 to RT5. I don't know if they have any customisations that
> > could make this harder.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> 
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