Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for closing this issue. I'm surprised you've noticed new upload
of mysql-workbench so fast!
I was just about to reply to you...
On Saturday, 22 February 2025 6:37:43 PM AEDT Jeremy Bícha wrote:
mysql-workbench was removed from Testing in 2018. Can we please remove
it from Debian now?
I prefer to keep it please. It was removed from "testing" only due to
lack of "sensible security support due to Oracle's policies" (#923347),
but it is a useful software without alternatives that yours truly use often.
It is actively maintained upstream and trivially backportable so I believe
it would be better to maintain it, especially because re-introducing such
heavy package with large code base through NEW process is very slow and difficult, let alone hard on ftp-master's team.
I'm yet to make up my mind between options either to declare the package
as unsupported with security team, or maintain it in "fasttrack" [1].
(Either way it should remain in "unatable".)
[1]:
https://fasttrack.debian.net/
This was asked before in 2021: https://bugs.debian.org/982683
Unfortunately I'm affected by personal circumstances that severely affect
my capacity. I may be slow to respond.
I noticed this package today as I was checking why the old
libpoppler140 was not automatically removed from Debian.
But M-W don't depend on "libpoppler", at least not directly...
mysql-workbench's presence in Unstable is causing cruft libraries to
not be removed.
That's unfortunate... Sorry for neglecting the package for so long.
(I wish I was not its only maintainer...)
mysql-workbench is not installable at least because pcre3 was removed
from Unstable.
That was not the only problem but it is all fixed now, as of yesterday.
Thank you for your concerns.
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Dmitry Smirnov
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