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  • Bug#1094887: balsa: Remove from Debian?

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 1 01:50:01 2025
    Source: balsa
    Version: 2.6.4-3
    Severity: serious
    X-Debbugs-CC: dkg@debian.org

    I think we should remove balsa from Debian. I believe it's not used by
    members of the Debian GNOME team (who are the maintainer for old
    historical reasons) so there aren't any uploaders who are verifying
    that the app works.

    I am concerned by the recent bug reports from one user: https://bugs.debian.org/1093651
    https://bugs.debian.org/1094681

    balsa has a very old Request for Help bug:
    https://bugs.debian.org/642906

    balsa is currently not in Testing but that's not really balsa's fault.

    Daniel Gillmor did some packaging work in 2020-2021 but then didn't
    reply to my comment on the RFH bug in 2022 or contributed to the
    packaging since. So I'm using this bug to check in with Daniel if he
    is still using balsa and can verify that it works or if he instead is comfortable with balsa being removed from Debian.

    Thank you,
    Jeremy Bícha

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  • From Werner Frey@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 5 17:40:01 2025
    Dear maintainers,

    I'm still using balsa on Debian Testing for several years several times a day (current version is 2.6.4-2+b4).
    I recently didn't find any bug worth for me writing a bug report and I cannot remember a crash during the last 6 month.
    Balsa is lightweight and nevertheless satisfies all my needs.
    I would greatly reget if balsa is removed from Debian.

    Thanks a lot to all maintainers and suppoerters!

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