Bug#1081499: Should rust-microformats be removed from unstable?

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: rust-microformats
Severity: important
User: ***@debian.org
Usertags: sidremove

Dear maintainer,

I suggest removing rust-microformats from Debian for the following reasons:
* It accumulated one RC-bug:
+ #1050087: rust-microformats: Fails to build
Last modified: 1 year, 23 days

* It is not part of bookworm or trixie and is not a key package.

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 evaluate each of the
RC-bugs listed above.
* If the bug is meant to permanently prevent the package from entering testing
or a stable release, but this package should stay part of unstable, please
add a usertag:

user ***@debian.org
usertags NNN + sidremove-ignore

* If the bug no longer applies, please close it. If it is closed, check
whether the fixed version is correct and adjust if necessary.

* Is the bug really release-critical? If not, please downgrade.

* If the bug still applies, please send a status update at least once a year.

Once all of the mentioned RC bugs have been acted upon in one way or another,
please close this bug.

In case the package should be removed from unstable, you may reassign this
bug report:

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 RM: rust-microformats -- RoM; rc-buggy
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:rust-microformats

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.

Kind regards

A tool for automatically removing packages from unstable

This bug report has been automatically filed with little human intervention.
If the filing is unclear or in error, don't hesitate to contact
Helmut Grohne <***@subdivi.de> for assistance.

[Helmut Grohne]

Control: severity 1081499 normal
Control: retitle 1081499 RM: rust-microformats -- RoQA; rc-buggy
Control: reassign 1081499 ftp.debian.org
Control: affects 1081499 + src:rust-microformats

Dear rust-microformats maintainer and ftp team,

a month has passed since filing a suggestion to remove rust-microformats
from Debian. It was suggested for removal due to not being part of bookworm
nor trixie and having accumulated a long-standing RC bug.
* #1050087: rust-microformats: Fails to build
Last modified: 1 year, 1 month


Since the suggestion bug was neither closed nor tagged in a month, silent
consent to proceed with removal is assumed.

Kind regards

A tool for automatically removing packages from unstable

This bug reply has been automatically sent with little human intervention.
If the filing is unclear or in error, don't hesitate to contact
Helmut Grohne <***@subdivi.de> for assistance.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Helmut Grohne (2024-10-14 19:08:19)

Post by Helmut Grohne
Dear rust-microformats maintainer and ftp team,
a month has passed since filing a suggestion to remove rust-microformats
from Debian. It was suggested for removal due to not being part of bookworm
nor trixie and having accumulated a long-standing RC bug.
* #1050087: rust-microformats: Fails to build
Last modified: 1 year, 1 month
Since the suggestion bug was neither closed nor tagged in a month, silent
consent to proceed with removal is assumed.

Please only drop package in unstable, and please wait a few more days to
allow me to issue a release targeted experimental.

I am still working on getting this package into shape, but the newest
progress is waiting from additional dependencies (notibly swc which is
pending but a large beast).

I cannot release targeted experimental right now, due to the perl
transition.

- Jonas

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Jonas,

Post by Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Helmut Grohne (2024-10-14 19:08:19)

Post by Helmut Grohne
Dear rust-microformats maintainer and ftp team,
a month has passed since filing a suggestion to remove rust-microformats
from Debian. It was suggested for removal due to not being part of bookworm
nor trixie and having accumulated a long-standing RC bug.
* #1050087: rust-microformats: Fails to build
Last modified: 1 year, 1 month
Since the suggestion bug was neither closed nor tagged in a month, silent
consent to proceed with removal is assumed.

Please only drop package in unstable, and please wait a few more days to
allow me to issue a release targeted experimental.
I am still working on getting this package into shape, but the newest
progress is waiting from additional dependencies (notibly swc which is
pending but a large beast).
I cannot release targeted experimental right now, due to the perl
transition.

Effectively, you state here that you are working on fixing #1050087 and
that doing so depends on other packages being changed. Would you take
the extra step and mailing this status update to #1050087? Would you
also be able reference other bugs in other packages that are
prerequisite to making progress? (e.g. the perl transition bug) And
then, please just close this removal bug.

Helmut

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Helmut Grohne (2024-10-15 15:46:09)

Post by Helmut Grohne
Hi Jonas,

Post by Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Helmut Grohne (2024-10-14 19:08:19)

Post by Helmut Grohne
Dear rust-microformats maintainer and ftp team,
a month has passed since filing a suggestion to remove rust-microformats
from Debian. It was suggested for removal due to not being part of bookworm
nor trixie and having accumulated a long-standing RC bug.
* #1050087: rust-microformats: Fails to build
Last modified: 1 year, 1 month
Since the suggestion bug was neither closed nor tagged in a month, silent
consent to proceed with removal is assumed.

Please only drop package in unstable, and please wait a few more days to
allow me to issue a release targeted experimental.
I am still working on getting this package into shape, but the newest
progress is waiting from additional dependencies (notibly swc which is
pending but a large beast).
I cannot release targeted experimental right now, due to the perl
transition.

Effectively, you state here that you are working on fixing #1050087 and
that doing so depends on other packages being changed. Would you take
the extra step and mailing this status update to #1050087?

Yes, I will follow up on bug#1050087, and tag related bugs.

Post by Helmut Grohne
Would you
also be able reference other bugs in other packages that are
prerequisite to making progress? (e.g. the perl transition bug) And
then, please just close this removal bug.

No, I still find it relevant for bug#1050087 to not block work in
unstable, and I therefore find this removal bug still relevant, except
specific to the package in unstable. So I will not close the bugreport
but do instead request reframing it to the narrower scope of only
removing the package **in unstable**.

rust-microformats now exists in experimental. The entanglement of
debhelper dependencies being uninstallable at certain moments during the
perl transition - which I doubt anyone has tracked as bugreports - is
now in the past, and I do not plan on filing/tagging any bugreport
related to that.

Please go ahead and drop **unstable** rust-microformats (because the
package now exists in its still broken form in experimental, where it
should have been all along).

- Jonas