[Splashy-devel] Bug#648063: RM: splashy -- RoQA; FTBFS, NMU-maintained, obsolete, 'falling' popcon

[Didier Raboud]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

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Hi dear FTP team, 

Note as introduction that I'm not any of the maintainers of splashy, nor
officially a member of the QA team.

I hereby request the removal of the splashy source from unstable, for the
following reasons:

- - It currently FTBFS since May 2011 (#625013) without any sign of life from
  the maintainers;
- - It was not present in the last stable release (dropped from testing before
  release);
- - It's last upload was a NMU, in November 2009, without acknowledgement (so
  far). The latest maintainer upload was in April 2009;
- - It's popcon statistices are falling, especially since libsplashy1-dev has no
  reverse build-depends anymore.
- - It's technology is outdated and is well-replaced by plymouth's.

Finally, to other readers of this bugreport, please note that I have
absolutely no personal grief against (nor in favor) of splashy; I just tend to
think that it's time in Debian should probably be over.

Cheers,

OdyX

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