Open wRAR opened 1 month ago
@wRAR this is a very old version of python3-discogs-client and I'm wondering how the official way to remove a package from the Debian archives would be? We don't want to maintain the Debian package anymore. Can you help us with that matter?
@JOJ0 the official way to remove a package from Debian unstable/testing is making sure there are no reverse dependencies (there are currently two direct ones) and then filing an RM bug.
@wRAR thanks a lot, sorry for late reply, I should finally get to removing it. One dependency is github.com/joj0/discodos.git, not sure about the second yet.
beets
uses python3-discogs-client
for build-time tests and autopkgtests.
@wRAR Hi sgain I'm so sorry that I'm so bad at this and slow to respond/act.
I justrealized that python-discogs-client is somewhat maintained in Debian. Who is the maintainer? I see v2.5, which is notterribly old but most importantly I think we recently fixedsom Pytjon 12 related things which might address the issue: https://github.com/joalla/discogs_client/pull/141/files
What I could do to help js push out a pypi release by the end of this week
I justrealized that python-discogs-client is somewhat maintained in Debian.
I can't say so. If you no longer want to be listed as its maintainer it must be formally orphaned as there are no other human maintainers listed.
I see v2.5
It was uploaded 2 years ago as a team upload.
Ok, hi again @wRAR thanks again for the patience. I now did the following:
reportbug
to file an "wnpp orphan" bug for the python-discogs-client
source package.After thinking this through again I believe that the package is essential to stay in Debian since https://packages.debian.org/source/trixie/beets depends on it and I can imagine that having beets
available out-of-the box on Debian is worth it.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction @wRAR, is there anything else I can do?
is there anything else I can do?
No, though I suggest considering doing the same for other your packages you don't want to maintain. Thanks.
is there anything else I can do?
No, though I suggest considering doing the same for other your packages you don't want to maintain. Thanks.
Yes. Thanks. A little off-topic in this repo but I don't care and I think it's not a big deal for my fellow repo owners if I continue to talk about "other" Debian packages within this issue :-)
I just filed removal requests for the remaining two packages I'm listed as a maintainer. I was not 100% sure if filing against releases.debian.org was correct (since they are in testing already). My goal is to remove them from Debian entirely.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1087548
Would I now have to file another bug against ftp.debian.org
to remove them from unstable/sid? Or is it sufficient like that?
The correct way to remove a package from Debian is to file a removal from sid against ftp.debian.org
. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#removing-packages
Found in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1082206 and I can confirm it locally.