RM: broken and poorly maintained

[Simon Quigley]

Please remove node-mapnik and node-tilelive-* from Ubuntu and blacklist them from syncing. node-tilelive-* are node-mapnik's rdeps.

These packages have been broken and too undermaintained for a bit, and continue to block transitions (this time, it's a blocker for the nodejs transition). There are no major rdeps of these packages, and when Adam Conrad filed Debian bug 880072, they were contemplating removing these anyways.

$ reverse-depends src:node-mapnik
Reverse-Depends
===============
* node-tilelive-bridge (for node-mapnik)
* node-tilelive-mapnik (for node-mapnik)
* node-tilelive-vector (for node-mapnik)

$ reverse-depends -b src:node-mapnik
No reverse dependencies found

$ reverse-depends src:node-tilelive-bridge
No reverse dependencies found

$ reverse-depends -b src:node-tilelive-bridge
No reverse dependencies found

$ reverse-depends src:node-tilelive-mapnik
No reverse dependencies found

$ reverse-depends -b src:node-tilelive-mapnik
No reverse dependencies found

$ reverse-depends src:node-tilelive-vector
No reverse dependencies found

$ reverse-depends -b src:node-tilelive-vector
No reverse dependencies found

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Launchpad won't let me add it, but https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889962 is relevant as well.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This does not fit the ordinary policy for blacklisting; if the maintainer uploads a new version in Debian, it is presumably because they have fixed the RC bugs and we should sync it again.

Also, the *-tilelive-* packages themselves don't appear to be buggy, they just depend on the one that is; so for now I will demote these to -proposed rather than remove them.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Demoting packages to bionic-proposed:
 node-tilelive-bridge 0.0.2-1 in bionic
Comment: Depends on broken node-mapnik; LP: #1750318
Demote [y|N]? y
Remove node-tilelive-bridge from release [y|N]? y
1 package successfully demoted.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Demoting packages to bionic-proposed:
 node-tilelive-mapnik 0.6.8-1 in bionic
Comment: Depends on broken node-mapnik; LP: #1750318
Demote [y|N]? y
Remove node-tilelive-mapnik from release [y|N]? y
1 package successfully demoted.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Demoting packages to bionic-proposed:
 node-tilelive-vector 0.1.3-1 in bionic
Comment: Depends on broken node-mapnik; LP: #1750318
Demote [y|N]? y
Remove node-tilelive-vector from release [y|N]? y
1 package successfully demoted.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removing packages from bionic:
 node-mapnik 3.6.2+dfsg-3 in bionic
  node-mapnik 3.6.2+dfsg-3 in bionic amd64
  node-mapnik 3.6.2+dfsg-3 in bionic arm64
  node-mapnik 3.6.2+dfsg-3 in bionic armhf
  node-mapnik 3.6.2+dfsg-3 in bionic i386
  node-mapnik 3.6.2+dfsg-3 in bionic ppc64el
  node-mapnik 3.6.2+dfsg-3 in bionic s390x
Comment: FTBFS and failing tests, blocks nodejs transition; LP: #1750318, Debian bug #889962
1 package successfully removed.
Removing packages from bionic-proposed:
 node-mapnik 3.6.2+dfsg-3build1 in bionic
Comment: FTBFS and failing tests, blocks nodejs transition; LP: #1750318, Debian bug #889962
1 package successfully removed.