Please remove phoronix-text-suite from Ubuntu

Bug #1703630 reported by AsciiWolf
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Bug Description

phoronix-test-suite was removed from Debian a year ago. It is unmaintained in Ubuntu. Please remove it from Ubuntu. There are no reverse depends.

Debian removal bug is https://bugs.debian.org/846105

It looks like upstream, Michael Larabel, is also requesting in the comments below that phoronix-test-suite be removed from Ubuntu if it's not going to be maintained and kept reasonably up to date.

Original Bug Report
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The phoronix-test-suite package version is 5.2.1 (released in 2014), however the latest upstream version is 7.2.1. Please, consider upgrading the package.

AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)
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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :

Any news?

AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)
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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :

I see that the package was deleted from Debian, but is still in Ubuntu.

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michaellarabel (michael-michaellarabel) wrote :

Yes I would appreciate if the phoronix-test-suite package would either be updated in Debian or deleted... Right now the packages PTS 5.2.1 version is four years out of date and PTS 8.0.0 is coming up for release in the next two or three months... I've been very frustrated seeing this package not be updated and would rather it be removed if it's not going to be updated as users can otherwise just install from source or the Debian package at http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/

For any Ubuntu packagers, it should be rather trivial upgrading from 5.2.1 to 7.8/8.0 and shouldn't require any real changes to the packaging.

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michaellarabel (michael-michaellarabel) wrote :

Also with regards to it being deleted from Debian, I believe it was because they didn't like that PTS has the ability to install additional packages (external dependencies) itself. You could add all of the possible PTS dependencies to the Debian package itself, but then it would bring in a whole number of dependencies that likely aren't going to be needed/used, depending upon what test(s) the user wants to run for benchmarking so for that reason PTS handles them dynamically and calls APT or the respective distribution's packaging mechanism when it needs a given dependency for a particular test.

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

> Yes I would appreciate if the phoronix-test-suite package would either be updated in Debian or deleted.

Ok. I converted this bug into a removal bug. Thanks!

summary: - Phoronix Test Suite package is outdated
+ Please remove phoronix-text-suite from Ubuntu
description: updated
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in phoronix-test-suite (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :
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michaellarabel (michael-michaellarabel) wrote :

Any chance any Ubuntu packagers can either update the Phoronix-Test-Suite package for the Disco cycle otherwise get the package removed?

The current package (PTS 5.2.1) is years out-of-date with PTS 8.4.1 being the latest release... 5.2 was released in 2014.

It would be great to get it either updated otherwise removed from Ubuntu to stop shipping the old release to avoid confusing users. Otherwise I can just block the old PTS 5.2.1 user-agent from accessing OpenBenchmarking.org so users know it's out-of-date, in which case it would just render the existing Ubuntu package non-working for most use-cases.... Thanks.

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Removing packages:
 phoronix-test-suite 5.2.1-1ubuntu2 in disco
  phoronix-test-suite 5.2.1-1ubuntu2 in disco amd64
  phoronix-test-suite 5.2.1-1ubuntu2 in disco arm64
  phoronix-test-suite 5.2.1-1ubuntu2 in disco armhf
  phoronix-test-suite 5.2.1-1ubuntu2 in disco i386
  phoronix-test-suite 5.2.1-1ubuntu2 in disco ppc64el
  phoronix-test-suite 5.2.1-1ubuntu2 in disco s390x
Comment: (From Debian) RoQA; orphaned; RC-buggy; unmaintained; Debian bug #846105
Remove [y|N]? y

Changed in phoronix-test-suite (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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