[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#958692: node-matrix-js-sdk: Remove dependency to node-request

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2/11/23 10:27 PM, Hubert Chathi wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:43:55 +0530, Praveen Arimbrathodiyil <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> said:
> 
>> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:52:39 +0200 yadd at debian.org wrote:
>>> Upstream has deprecated node-request:
>>> https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 It can be replaced by
>>> node-got
> 
>> Hi Jonas, Hubert,
> 
>> Are you planning to update matrix-js-sdk? We'd like to remove
>> deprecated node-request from the archive and this package is a
>> blocker.
> 
> I don't currently have time to update matrix-js-sdk.  Feel free to
> remove it from testing so that it doesn't block anything else.  I can
> always upload a new version later.
> 

This is already not in testing for 525 days. We can't remove a package 
from the archive if any package (build) depends on it.