[DRE-maint] Bug#1104189: ruby-mina: Should ruby-mina be removed from unstable?

[Andreas Tille]

Source: ruby-mina
Version: 0.3.7-1.1
Severity: serious
Justification: grab attention of maintainer
X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>, Aggelos Avgerinos <evaggelos.avgerinos at gmail.com>, Package Salvaging Team <team+salvage at tracker.debian.org>, 832243 at bugs.debian.org, 1045238 at bugs.debian.org

Dear maintainer,

I suggest removing ruby-mina from Debian for the following reasons:

 * The last maintainer upload was 2015-12-24 for version 0.3.7. Upstream
   has meanwhile 1.2.5.
 * There are no votes in popcon
   https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=ruby-mina&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
 * The binary package mina has no reverse depends

This bug serves as a pre-removal warning. After one month, the bug will be
reassigned to ftp.debian.org to actually request removal of the package.

In case the package should be kept inside Debian, please let me know.
I'd happily help to fix the two open very easy to fix bugs and possibly
upgrade to the latest upstream version.  You can do so by easily closing
this bug (to be sure keep me in CC if you want me to help with this
package).

In case the package should be removed from unstable, you may reassign this
bug report:

    Control: severity -1 normal
    Control: retitle -1 RM: ruby-mina -- RoM; rc-buggy
    Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
    Control: affects -1 + src:ruby-mina

Alternatively, you may wait a month and have it reassigned.


Your package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[1] initiative, which
aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through
the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating
packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to familiarize newcomers with a
consistent Git-based workflow.


Kind regards
   Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks



-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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