Bug#946412: janus-gateway: upstream does not support stable releases

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Salvatore Bonaccorso (2020-06-11 22:54:43)
> > On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 02:09:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > Upstream releases are to be considered draft snapshots,
> > > and this package is therefore unsuitable for inclusion
> > > in long-term distributions like Debian stable.
> > > 
> > > This bug should be bumped to release-critical state
> > > close to or after entering freeze -
> > > but not before so as to ease use for users tracking testing
> > > including derivatives based on Debian testing.
> > 
> > Reading the above, so janus should not have been in buster, right?
> 
> While in good faith, I am not sure what you are implying with the above: 
> In an ideal World (where crystal balls or time machines exist), yes.
> 
> Both filing this bugreport and the upstream statement triggering it 
> occured _after_ the release of Buster, indicating lack of knowledge on 
> the matter at the time of release of Buster (or, in bad faith, that it 
> was known but kept secret - sure you cannot mean that).

Don't read things into this which don't exist :-)

The only question here was whether janus should continue to be in stable
or not, noone is accusing you of anything.

> Sorry, I am not familiar with the procedures to do that, and appreciate 
> your suggestion: Do I simply file a bugreport against ftp.debian.org as 
> with removals from unstable/experimental, or which different runes 
> should I throw?

For this simply do "reportbug release.debian.org" and pick the "rm"
option. The removal (if agreeds by stable release managers), then happens
by the next point release.

Cheers,
        Moritz