[Debian-zh-dev] Bug#859554: RM: pidgin-openfetion -- RoQA; Service provider stopped; RC-buggy; Upstream dead; Orphaned

[Boyuan Yang]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-CC: chinese-developers at lists.alioth.debian.org levin108 at gmail.com

Hello all,

I believe it's time to remove package pidgin-openfetion from Debian archive.

Reasons:

* Upstream dead for more than 5 years;
* Popcon declining;
* Package orphaned already;
* RC-buggy (openssl 1.1 migration; see also Bug#859554)
* As a plugin library to provide IM integration into pidgin, its service 
provider, China Mobile, has stopped the old fetion service and heads to a new 
one focusing on enterprise use with different web API. This effectively made 
the library useless.

CC-ing chinese-developers list (original package maintainer on-list) and 
original library author.

Regards,
Boyuan Yang
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