Please remove saods9 from lucid [buggy, out of date, debian orphaned]

[Joe Harrington]

Cesare Tirabassi wrote on 2008-08-27: #5

Please remove saods9 from the archive:

- At least it should be removed from intrepid
- Please remove both source and all binaries
- The package is rather outdated, unmaintained in Debian and orphaned since long. It is also quite buggy and chances that will be removed from Debian are very high (see comment #4).
- There are no rdepends

Thanks.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Unfortunately for Gutsy we are past the Upstream Version Freeze, so without an updated package submitted by someone and a UVF exception approved, this will have to wait for Gutsy +1.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This will be fixed in hardy+1.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-April/003519.html

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

We have version 5.2 now from upstream.
This is a nightmare, its a 25 MB tarball which contains many libraries already in the archive (amongst them: blt, tcl, tk, tkimg, tktable, zlib), some of these in binary format, at least another modified from source (this was replaced in Debian by a previous fortran version), its own build system which is a (worse) homemade version of a complete autotools set.
The package has been orphaned in Debian since February 2008, and I have serious doubts that, due to its nature, it will be adopted in the near future.
My preference would be to wait until Intrepid alpha 6 release (currently scheduled for September 18th) and if there is no update from Debian just remove the obsolete source and binaries from the archive.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Please remove saods9 from the archive:

- At least it should be removed from intrepid
- Please remove both source and all binaries
- The package is rather outdated, unmaintained in Debian and orphaned since long. It is also quite buggy and chances that will be removed from Debian are very high (see comment #4).
- There are no rdepends

Thanks.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I retract my request, there is apparently an attempt being made in Debian to revive this package:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465959#13

Sorry for the noise.

[Kennet (kharpsoe)]

It seems to over a year ago any body has worked on this package in Debian, also with new releases of Ubuntu (Karmic) this package is now completely non functional. See for instance:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/saods9/+bug/406509

So at the very least I suggest that the package is removed as to not cause unnecessary confusion.

The download from homepage of DS9 works fine, though it is not a elegant.

[Lenin (gagarin)]

6.0 actually

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Requesting removal as per Cesare Tirabassi comments. It was bad a year and a half ago, and it's still bad today.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Unsubscribing ubuntu-archive and subscribing ubuntu-sponsors for review.

[Lenin (gagarin)]

Please don't remove it, we have many users here that need it. I'm working on an updated/fixed package (version 6, and also trying 6.1)

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Great, you should talk with Riccardo Stagni <email address hidden>

This package was orphaned by the Debian QA group two years ago, and a year ago he adopted the ITA. I just pinged him, and he is still working on it [1], but is busy.

As you can see, there is a bit of work needed [2, 3].

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465959
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/saods9.html
[3] http://<email address hidden>#saods9

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Would it make sense to remove it from the archive until the new version has been successfully packaged? As far as I can see if just creates problems at the moment.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Please do remove: it can come back when it works for a future release, but it's completely unsuitable as-is in lucid. ACK on removal.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO Removing candidates:
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO saods9 4.0b7-2 in lucid
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO saods9 4.0b7-2 in lucid amd64
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO saods9 4.0b7-2 in lucid armel
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO saods9 4.0b7-2 in lucid i386
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO saods9 4.0b7-2 in lucid ia64
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO saods9 4.0b7-2 in lucid powerpc
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO saods9 4.0b7-2 in lucid sparc
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO Removed-by: Steve Kowalik
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO Comment: Outdated, unmaintained and orphaned, LP: # 133784
2010-04-27 05:53:46 INFO 7 packages successfully removed.