[RM] Removal request of version 6.2.0-4 from groovy-proposed

[Lucas Kanashiro]

puppetdb/6.2.0-4 is stuck in groovy-proposed for 64 days and in Debian unstable for 347 days. Version 6.2.0-3 was removed from Debian testing because it did not migrate to testing for too long [1]. After gathering all these information seems that the Debian maintainer is not having too much time to work on this issue, so I'd like to request the removal of source and binaries (puppetdb, puppetdb-doc, and puppet-terminus-puppetdb) from groovy-proposed.

puppetdb never landed in the release pocket, so nothing to worry about reverse dependencies.

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1115427/puppetdb-removed-from-testing/

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removing packages from groovy-proposed:
 puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy
  puppet-terminus-puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy amd64
  puppet-terminus-puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy arm64
  puppet-terminus-puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy armhf
  puppet-terminus-puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy i386
  puppet-terminus-puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy ppc64el
  puppet-terminus-puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy riscv64
  puppet-terminus-puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy s390x
  puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy amd64
  puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy arm64
  puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy armhf
  puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy i386
  puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy ppc64el
  puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy riscv64
  puppetdb 6.2.0-4 in groovy s390x
  puppetdb-doc 6.2.0-4 in groovy amd64
  puppetdb-doc 6.2.0-4 in groovy arm64
  puppetdb-doc 6.2.0-4 in groovy armhf
  puppetdb-doc 6.2.0-4 in groovy i386
  puppetdb-doc 6.2.0-4 in groovy ppc64el
  puppetdb-doc 6.2.0-4 in groovy riscv64
  puppetdb-doc 6.2.0-4 in groovy s390x
Comment: fails autopkgtests, requires sourceful fixes; LP: #1885568
1 package successfully removed.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

This still somewhat is the case blocking things from -proposed.

Tests still fail in
Ubuntu-Impish:
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-impish/impish/amd64/p/puppetdb/20210510_122706_91fc7@/log.gz
Current Debian:
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/p/puppetdb/12672518/log.gz

Tests failed for a long time, and only expect to be "good" for a very old bionic test that once was good (and flaky even there).
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/p/puppetdb/impish/amd64
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/p/puppetdb/hirsute/amd64
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/p/puppetdb/bionic/amd64

Last good one:
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-impish/impish/amd64/p/puppetdb/20180326_053316_2977b@/log.gz

This was removed in Groovy by this case here, but due to minor uploads in Debian it is back in proposed again (Debian and Ubuntu).
We might consider re-removing it from -proposed if not getting better, but in any case we need to ensure that it's tests won't block other more stable components (like I've found with e.g. postgresql-common).

Hint MP
=> https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/britney/+git/hints-ubuntu/+merge/403769