Bug#795943: pbuilder-uml create crashes

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 03:30:29PM +0200, Benedikt Ahrens wrote:
> On 08/20/2015 03:07 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > Well, pbuilder-uml has been broken since quite some time.
> > Yes, clearly is a quite showstopper to use pbuilder-uml, but I'm downgrading it
> > mostly to not have another release-critical bug that would affect testing
> > migration and whatnot.
> 
> That does not seem to me a good reason to change severity of a bug, if I
> interpret the bts documentation correctly. It will also prevent you from
> getting help with maintenance for your package, since the downgrading
> decreases visibility of the bug report and hence visibility of the
> problems the package has.

Well, pbuilder got several RCs bug but nearly nobody show up to fix them in the
last year.
I'd be happy to be contradicted, though!
(but also the experience with other packages of mine is similar)

> > I also got suggestions to just drop pbuilder-uml …
> 
> That seems totally adequate considered the state of the package.
> There has recently been a call for requests for removal [1]. Maybe you
> want to consider filing such a request for this package?

FWIW I was also present at the QA bof where also similar stuff have been
discussed.  But I don't like detroying people workflow like that.  If it turns
out it's still not in a good enough state (like this) for the stretch release
I'll ask for its removal for sure.  Also src:user-mode-linux is NMU-maintained,
and that's just another good reason to drop pbuilder-uml.

But in the meantime please don't block the main pbuilder package, just this.

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