Please remove nield from the archive

[Nick Rosbrook]

nield 0.6.1-2build1 is stuck in -proposed.

It FTBFS[1]:

dh_auto_build: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
 make -j1
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make all-recursive
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
Making all in src
make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -g -O2 -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection -fdebug-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=/usr/src/nield-0.6.1-2build1 -c -o nield.o nield.c
In file included from nield.c:20:
nield.h:68:10: fatal error: linux/tc_act/tc_ipt.h: No such file or directory
   68 | #include <linux/tc_act/tc_ipt.h>
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

This header was removed from Linux in 2023[2].

This package has no reverse depends:

nr@six:~$ reverse-depends -r oracular src:nield
No reverse dependencies found
nr@six:~$ reverse-depends -r oracular src:nield -a source
No reverse dependencies found

[1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/744524684/buildlog_ubuntu-oracular-amd64.nield_0.6.1-2build1_BUILDING.txt.gz
[2] https://<email address hidden>/T/

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

If the header is dropped this build failure could maybe be fixed by just dropping the reference to the header as well. But there is a different build failure in Debian (Debian bug #1066535) and the package is removed from Debian testing, so this is definitely a candidate for removal.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

$ reverse-depends src:nield
No reverse dependencies found
$ reverse-depends src:nield -a source
No reverse dependencies found
$

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removing packages from oracular:
 nield 0.6.1-2 in oracular
  nield 0.6.1-2 in oracular amd64
  nield 0.6.1-2 in oracular arm64
  nield 0.6.1-2 in oracular armhf
  nield 0.6.1-2 in oracular ppc64el
  nield 0.6.1-2 in oracular riscv64
  nield 0.6.1-2 in oracular s390x
Comment: FTBFS, removed from Debian testing; LP: #2079349
1 package successfully removed.
Removing packages from oracular-proposed:
 nield 0.6.1-2build1 in oracular
Comment: FTBFS, removed from Debian testing; LP: #2079349
1 package successfully removed.