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

[Andrew Ruthven]

Hey,

libmodule-install-rtx-perl has migrated to Trixie. I've updated bug 1030749
to be serious (I realised it doesn't need to be RC).

I'm proposing this wording to go in the "Noteworthy obsolete packages"
section of the release-notes[0]:

    request-tracker4 has been removed from trixie. Its replacement is
    request-tracker5.

The wording is a bit different from what they normally use, but I've removed
a swathe of packages so saying "The X package ..." seems a bit off.

Cheers,
Andrew

[0] https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html

On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 22:57 +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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