Please remove lava from the archive (doesn't support Ubuntu; FTBFS with delta)

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

As discussed with Steve on https://code.launchpad.net/~sergiodj/britney/+git/hints-ubuntu/+merge/449779 and IRC (#ubuntu-release), I'm filing this bug to request the removal of lava from the Ubuntu archive.

The software only supports being packaged in Debian (see https://gitlab.com/lava/lava/-/blob/master/share/requires.py?ref_type=heads#L100), so when the debian/changelog distribution is set to e.g. "mantic", it FTBFS.

On top of that, due to the recent transition to Django 4.0 in the archive, lava's dep8 tests are failing (see bug #2032850) and blocking some packages from migrating (including qemu).

@racb also made a point that having such restriction in the source code may go against the DFSG, which would justify removing the package from Debian as well, but I'll leave that discussion to the Debian maintainers.

[Sergio Durigan Junior (sergiodj)]

$ reverse-depends -r mantic src:lava
<nothing>

$ reverse-depends -r mantic -b src:lava
No reverse dependencies found

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removing packages from mantic:
 lava 2023.01-2 in mantic
  lava 2023.01-2 in mantic amd64
  lava 2023.01-2 in mantic arm64
  lava 2023.01-2 in mantic armhf
  lava 2023.01-2 in mantic i386
  lava 2023.01-2 in mantic ppc64el
  lava 2023.01-2 in mantic riscv64
  lava 2023.01-2 in mantic s390x
  lava-common 2023.01-2 in mantic amd64
  lava-common 2023.01-2 in mantic arm64
  lava-common 2023.01-2 in mantic armhf
  lava-common 2023.01-2 in mantic i386
  lava-common 2023.01-2 in mantic ppc64el
  lava-common 2023.01-2 in mantic riscv64
  lava-common 2023.01-2 in mantic s390x
  lava-coordinator 2023.01-2 in mantic amd64
  lava-coordinator 2023.01-2 in mantic arm64
  lava-coordinator 2023.01-2 in mantic armhf
  lava-coordinator 2023.01-2 in mantic i386
  lava-coordinator 2023.01-2 in mantic ppc64el
  lava-coordinator 2023.01-2 in mantic riscv64
  lava-coordinator 2023.01-2 in mantic s390x
  lava-dev 2023.01-2 in mantic amd64
  lava-dev 2023.01-2 in mantic arm64
  lava-dev 2023.01-2 in mantic armhf
  lava-dev 2023.01-2 in mantic i386
  lava-dev 2023.01-2 in mantic ppc64el
  lava-dev 2023.01-2 in mantic riscv64
  lava-dev 2023.01-2 in mantic s390x
  lava-dispatcher 2023.01-2 in mantic amd64
  lava-dispatcher 2023.01-2 in mantic arm64
  lava-dispatcher 2023.01-2 in mantic armhf
  lava-dispatcher 2023.01-2 in mantic i386
  lava-dispatcher 2023.01-2 in mantic ppc64el
  lava-dispatcher 2023.01-2 in mantic riscv64
  lava-dispatcher 2023.01-2 in mantic s390x
  lava-dispatcher-host 2023.01-2 in mantic amd64
  lava-dispatcher-host 2023.01-2 in mantic arm64
  lava-dispatcher-host 2023.01-2 in mantic armhf
  lava-dispatcher-host 2023.01-2 in mantic i386
  lava-dispatcher-host 2023.01-2 in mantic ppc64el
  lava-dispatcher-host 2023.01-2 in mantic riscv64
  lava-dispatcher-host 2023.01-2 in mantic s390x
  lava-lxc-mocker 2023.01-2 in mantic amd64
  lava-lxc-mocker 2023.01-2 in mantic arm64
  lava-lxc-mocker 2023.01-2 in mantic armhf
  lava-lxc-mocker 2023.01-2 in mantic i386
  lava-lxc-mocker 2023.01-2 in mantic ppc64el
  lava-lxc-mocker 2023.01-2 in mantic riscv64
  lava-lxc-mocker 2023.01-2 in mantic s390x
  lava-server 2023.01-2 in mantic amd64
  lava-server 2023.01-2 in mantic arm64
  lava-server 2023.01-2 in mantic armhf
  lava-server 2023.01-2 in mantic i386
  lava-server 2023.01-2 in mantic ppc64el
  lava-server 2023.01-2 in mantic riscv64
  lava-server 2023.01-2 in mantic s390x
  lava-server-doc 2023.01-2 in mantic amd64
  lava-server-doc 2023.01-2 in mantic arm64
  lava-server-doc 2023.01-2 in mantic armhf
  lava-server-doc 2023.01-2 in mantic i386
  lava-server-doc 2023.01-2 in mantic ppc64el
  lava-server-doc 2023.01-2 in mantic riscv64
  lava-server-doc 2023.01-2 in mantic s390x
Comment: FTBFS if modified in Ubuntu, so unmaintainable; LP: #2032978
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And added to sync-blocklist.