• Bug#1101173: Removal notice: obsolete

    From Ilias Tsitsimpis@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 24 10:20:01 2025
    Source: haskell-tldr
    Version: 0.9.2-6
    Severity: serious

    I intend to remove this package:

    * It has no rev dependencies
    * Seems unmaintained; Last upload ~4 years ago
    * Debian provides tldr-py, a Python client for tldr
    * Will probably stop working at end of year (see [1]).

    If you believe we should keep this package in Debian, please close this
    bug report.

    [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2025/03/msg00000.html

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    Ilias

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  • From Diederik de Haas@21:1/5 to Ilias Tsitsimpis on Fri Apr 11 11:10:01 2025
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    On Mon Mar 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM CET, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
    Source: haskell-tldr

    I intend to remove this package:

    * Seems unmaintained; Last upload ~4 years ago
    * Debian provides tldr-py, a Python client for tldr
    * Will probably stop working at end of year (see [1]).

    [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2025/03/msg00000.html

    FTR: The situation wrt tldr-py isn't much better:

    Its upstream (https://github.com/lord63/tldr.py) last commit is from 5
    years ago, the latest tag is v0.7.0 while there is a 0.8.0 version on https://pypi.org/project/tldr.py/ and also according to one of the
    most 'recent' commits ... just forgot the tag I suppose?

    There's https://github.com/lord63/tldr.py/pull/50 ("fix: change master
    branch to main branch") and https://github.com/lord63/tldr.py/issues/49 ("upstream tldr mindlessly changed master to main"), both still open,
    which seem to indicate it's currently broken?
    (And no activity by the maintainer for years it seems by a quick scan)

    I installed the ``tldr-py`` package and tried to run it:
    - It apparently wants a config file in ``~/.tldrrc`` (not ideal IMO)
    - Upon running ``tldr init`` it asks "Input the tldr repo path(absolute
    path):". I had no idea what it should be, so I tried an URL I found at
    https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client and when researching
    a bit further, that seems to be an entirely different project...
    Apparently you're supposed to provide the location to your local clone
    of this git repo: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.git
    I can clone a git repo, but this doesn't look user friendly.
    And I guess you run into the above mentioned issue/PR which you need
    to apply to make it work?

    This doesn't invalidate your point about the haskell client, but I don't consider the ``tldr-py`` package a suitable replacement.

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