[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#822118: Bug#822118: RM: fw4spl -- RoQA, unmaintained, RC-buggy, FTBFS, blocks removal of old packages

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Hi Mattia,

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:22:07 +0000 Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> I didn't notice it, but the binary RM was already processed, so
> currently there are no fw4spl binaries in debian.
> 
> So this is not really a problem anymore for us, yet of course we would
> like to see this completely fixed.
> 
> > About libpng, I'm not sure to understand. FW4SPL depends on
> > libpng-dev, and if I refers to the sid packages list, libpng-dev is
> > related to libpng1.6, not libpng1.2.
> 
> The package couldn't be rebuild, so there was still the old binary that
> depended on libpng12.

I think the fw4spl should be removed from unstable too, it's not being
decrufted [0] keeping the old libvtk5.8 in unstable. I really want to
get rid of that to get the old netcdf packages out of unstable too.

[0] https://ftp-master.debian.org/cruft-report-daily.txt

Kind Regards,

Bas

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