Source: gbdfed
Version: 1.6-4
Severity: serious
Justification: grab attention of maintainer
X-Debbugs-Cc: Andrew Shadura <
andrewsh@debian.org>,
1032588@bugs.debian.org,
967372@bugs.debian.org,
980914@bugs.debian.org,
1096680@bugs.debian.org, Package Salvaging Team <
team+salvage@tracker.debian.org>
Dear maintainer,
I suggest removing gbdfed from Debian for the following reasons:
* It accumulated several bugs where every single one is a symptom
of the age of the package
- #980914: "Wrong Homepage" where even suggested fixes do not work any more
- #967372: "Depends on deprecated GTK 2"
- #1032588: patches provided but not uploaded
- #1096680: will create work in future
* I do not know the functionality details but I suspect users can use fontforge
to approach same or similar results
* Popcon votes are extremely low
https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gbdfed&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
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 in unstable, please let me know. If
my evaluation is wrong I'll happily work on the bugs (except #967372)
and do a Debian team upload. This bug is simply to raise your awareness
and if needed the Salvage team can lend some helping hand.
In case the package should be removed from unstable, you may reassign this
bug report:
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 RM: gbdfed -- RoM; rc-buggy
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:gbdfed
Alternatively, you may wait a month and have it reassigned.
In case you disagree with the above, please add a wontfix tag to this bug.
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Doing so will also prevent automatic reassignment.
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)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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