[DRE-maint] Bug#958829: haproxyctl: upstream project stale: no changes since 2016, homepage broken, and no issue tracker

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Jonas,

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 07:34:22PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Package: haproxyctl
> Version: 1.4.3-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: security
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> The haproxyctl project seems abandoned:
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> Last git commit was in November 2016,
> the "home" at Github has its issue tracker disabled,
> and it points to another homebase which is currently down.

Sounds not good indeed. Should the package be removed from unstable,
and not be included in the next stable release?

Running a simulation of a dak rm on coccia at least does show that
there will be no problems with reverse dependencies:

| $ dak rm --suite=sid -n -R haproxyctl
| Will remove the following packages from sid:
| 
| haproxyctl |    1.4.3-1 | source, all
| 
| Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
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| Checking reverse dependencies...
| No dependency problem found.

Regards,
Salvatore