The following is a list of packages that are either oldlibs or packages that should be removed from the archive. I'm using this page to track the status of any reverse depends/reverse build-depends so the packages can be removed.
Other pages
?kdelibs4c2aRemoval ReleaseGoals/RemoveOldLibs ?Gtk1.2ImlibGnome1Removals ?Teams/DebianTclTk/TclTk83Removal
Candidates
Some packages that could be considered for removal: libstlport4.6-dev libstlport5.1-dev gcc-4.1 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.3 autoconf2.13 autoconf2.59 automake1.4 automake1.7 automake1.9 automake1.10 libdb4.5 libdb4.6 libclutter-0.8-dev libclutter-0.9-dev libstdc++5 cupsys vs cups libdb1-compat
defoma
- Rationale: defoma is unmaintained and Debian-specific. fontconfig is a maintained and cross-distro replacement that is already in Debian. We should migrate everything to fontconfig and drop defoma.
All bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pabs@debian.org;tag=defoma-removal
- First round: migration of packages with defoma backends to fontconfig
Status: bugs filed
Xorg: Xorg is tricky. It uses defoma via x-ttcidfont-conf and --with-default-font-path=...defoma.... Fixing it should be a matter of removing defoma from its FontPath and fixing 539338. No bug filed about the FontPath change yet, once it is done, x-ttcidfont-conf can be removed too. Upstream plans to switch to fontconfig, but we shouldn't expect that to happen any time soon.
- Second round: conversion of defoma hints in fonts packages to fontconfig snippets
- Status: not started
- Third round: drop defoma backend from fontconfig
- Status: not started
- Fourth round: drop defoma from unstable
- Status: not started
- Fifth round: defoma deprecation in infrastructure stuff; lintian, etc
- Status: not started
db4.2
- heimdal [hurd-i386] only (PATH_MAX issues)
- isynch [hurd-i386] only (PATH_MAX issues)
- netatalk [mipsel] only
- onak [hurd-i386] only
- openldap [hurd-i386 ia64] only
- Package: cyrus-imapd-2.2
- Maintainer: Debian Cyrus Team
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.2-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Patched in Ubuntu for like a year. NMU?
2009-04-16 - BarrydeFreese: E-mailed the "maintainers".
2009-04-17 - BarrydeFreese: Reply from Sven. Sounds like it might be some work.
- Package: kolab-cyrus-imapd
- Maintainer: Debian Kolab Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.2-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Haven't checked this one out yet.
2009-04-16 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
db4.5
- dkim-milter [i386] only. Just out of date?
powershell - See ?OldGnomeLibs removal page.
- Package: python2.4
- Maintainer: Mathias Klose
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Haven't looked into this one yet.
2009-05-07 - BarrydeFreese: Bug Filed (527454).
- Package: python2.5
- Maintainer: Mathias Klose
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Haven't looked into this one yet.
2009-05-07 - BarrydeFreese: Bug Filed (527455).
soundtracker - See ?OldGnomeLibs wiki page.
- Package: webalizer
- Maintainer: Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5, libdb4.5-dev.
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (517286).
- Package: dspam
- Maintainer: Debian DSPAM Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: This package has several issues.
Jikes (RM: already filed)
- Package: jikes-classpath (classpath source package)
- Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: jikes
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed.
- jikes-kaffe (kaffe source package)
- Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: jikes
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed.
- Package: libgnu-regexp-java
- Maintainer: Kalle Kivimaa
- Problem (b)depends: jikes
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed.
2009-08-16 - BarrydeFreese: Bump to Serious since jikes has now been removed.
- Package: mmake
- Maintainer: Thomas Bushnell
- Problem (b)depends: jikes
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed.
2009-08-16 - BarrydeFreese: Bump to Serious since jikes has now been removed.
- Package: tightvnc-java
- Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist
- Problem (b)depends: jikes
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed.
2009-08-16 - BarrydeFreese: Bump to Serious since jikes has now been removed.
- Package: vnc-java
- Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist
- Problem (b)depends: jikes
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed.
2009-08-16 - BarrydeFreese: Bump to Serious since jikes has now been removed.
- Package: libnsuml-java
- Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-kaffe
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet.
2009-05-19 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
2009-08-16 - BarrydeFreese: Bump to Serious since jikes has now been removed.
- Package: filler
- Maintainer: James Damour
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-classpath
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet. Possible RM candidate?
2009-05-19 - BarrydeFreese: Sent an e-mail to maintainer/upstream (Same).
- Package: libgnuhmi-java
- Maintainer: ??? Is this a virtual package?
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-classpath
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet.
- Package: nice
- Maintainer: Daniel Bonniot
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-classpath
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet.
2009-05-19 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
2009-08-16 - BarrydeFreese: Bump to Serious since jikes has now been removed.
- Package: postgis
- Maintainer: Debian GIS Project
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-classpath
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet.
2009-05-19 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
2009-08-16 - BarrydeFreese: Bump to Serious since jikes has now been removed.
gtksourceview (Squeeze Release Goal)
- Package: drivel
- Maintainer: Neil Williams
- Problem (b)depends: libgtksourceview-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (541960)
- Package: gnoemoe
- Maintainer: Jesse van den Kieboom
- Problem (b)depends: libgtksourceview-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (541964)
- Package: gnome-python-desktop
- Maintainer: Loic Minier
- Problem (b)depends: libgtksourceview-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not yet filed.
- Package: lablgtk2
- Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: libgtksourceview-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (532905)
- Package: libgnomedb3
- Maintainer: Debian Gnome Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: libgtksourceview-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not yet filed.
- Package: screem
- Maintainer: Rob Bradford
- Problem (b)depends: libgtksourceview-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (471023)
libsoup (Squeeze Release Goal)
- Package: hardinfo
- Maintainer: Agney Lopes Roth Ferraz
- Problem (b)depends: libsoup2.2-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed (597591) but was closed in error. I have reopened it.
- Package: libsyncml
- Maintainer: Michael Banck
- Problem (b)depends: libsoup2.2-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Spoke with Michael on IRC, it will be resolved by Squeeze.
nautilus-cd-burner (Squeeze Release Goal)
- Package: gnome-desktop-sharp2
- Maintainer: Debian CLI libraries team
- Problem (b)depends: libnautilus-burn-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not yet filed.
- Package: gnome-media
- Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: libnautilus-burn-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not yet filed.
- Package: gnome-python-desktop
- Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: libnautilus-burn-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not yet filed.
- Package: rhythmbox
- Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
- Problem (b)depends: libnautilus-burn-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not yet filed.
glut
- Package: kaya
- Maintainer: Stuart Teasdale
- Problem (b)depends: libkaya-gl-dev depends on glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543692)
- Package: complearn-gui
- Maintainer: Rudi Cilibrasi
- Problem (b)depends: libglut3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543693)
- Package: crack-attack
- Maintainer: Chris Boyle
- Problem (b)depends: glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543694)
- Package: crystalspace
- Maintainer: Debian Games Team
- Problem (b)depends: glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543695)
- Package: gl-117
- Maintainer: Cédric Delfosse
- Problem (b)depends: libglut3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (394494)
- Package: mgltools-pyglf/non-free
- Maintainer: Debian-Med Packaging Team
- Problem (b)depends: libglut3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543696)
- Package: mgltools-utpackages/non-free
- Maintainer: Debian-Med Packaging Team
- Problem (b)depends: libglut3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543698)
- Package: navit
- Maintainer: Gilles Filippini, Bernd Zeimetz
- Problem (b)depends: glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543699)
- Package: pinball
- Maintainer: Jochen Friedrich
- Problem (b)depends: glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543701)
- Package: pymol
- Maintainer: Debichem Team
- Problem (b)depends: glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543702)
- Package: tdfsb
- Maintainer: Aurélien GÉRÔME
- Problem (b)depends: glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543704)
Resolved
- Package: radiusd-livingston
- Maintainer: Paul Martin
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5, libdb4.5-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Filed bug.
2009-04-16 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- inn2 [hurd-i386] only (Asked for rebuild on buildd)
2009-04-16 - BarrydeFreese: Rebuilt on hurd so now up to date.
- Package: heimdal
- Maintainer: Brian May
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
2009-04-16 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- Package: libtabe
- Maintainer: Roger So
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (517282). Maintainer pretty inactive.
2009-04-16 - BarrydeFreese: NMUd.
- Package: nmh
- Maintainer: Nick Rusnov
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (517283). Maintainer pretty inactive.
2009-04-16 - BarrydeFreese: NMUd.
- Package: jabberd2
- Maintainer: Jorge Salamero Sanz
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.4-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (515859).
2009-04-17 - BarrydeFreese: Supposedly going to get an update this weekend.
2009-04-20 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- Package: hotkeys
- Maintainer: Alexander Wirt
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (517281).
2009-04-22 - BarrydeFreese: NMUd.
- Package: ttf2tex
- Maintainer: Co-maintainers of ttf2tex
- Problem (b)depends: freetype1-tools
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: I don't see any reason to not finally RM: freetype1. ttf2tex is the last one and it is NPOASR.
2009-04-22 - BarrydeFreese: Removal already requested.
2009-04-23 - BarrydeFreese: Removed from the archive.
- Package: lib-dom-java
- Maintainer: Nicolas Duboc
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-kaffe
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet. Possible RM candidate?
2009-05-19 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
2009-05-26 - BarrydeFreese: Removed from the archive at maintainers request.
- Package: libxp-java
- Maintainer: Nicolas Duboc
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-kaffe
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet. Possible RM candidate?
2009-05-19 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
2009-05-26 - BarrydeFreese: Removed from the archive at maintainers request.
- Package: nemesis
- Maintainer: William Vera
- Problem (b)depends: libnet0, libnet0-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (423201). Might end up being a removal candidate.
2009-04-26 - BarrydeFreese: libnet0 removed from unstable, now uninstallable.
2009-05-26 - BarrydeFreese: Removed from the archive.
- Package: sing
- Maintainer: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
- Problem (b)depends: libnet0, libnet0-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (423210). I think upstream has been dead for a while. Possibly RM?
2009-04-26 - BarrydeFreese: libnet0 removed from unstable, now uninstallable.
2009-05-26 - BarrydeFreese: Removed from the archive.
- Package: paketto
- Maintainer: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
- Problem (b)depends: libnet0
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Have talked with upstream and he is trying to find another library.
2009-04-26 - BarrydeFreese: libnet0 removed from unstable, now uninstallable.
2009-05-26 - BarrydeFreese: Removed from the archive.
- Package: proguard
- Maintainer: Sam Clegg
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-classpath
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet.
2009-05-19 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
2009-06-01 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- Package: realtimebattle
- Maintainer: Rémi Vanicat
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-classpath
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet.
2009-05-19 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
2009-06-01 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- Package: jamvm
- Maintainer: Michael Koch
- Problem (b)depends: jikes
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. Builds fine with openjdk-6 and gcj.
2009-08-16 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- Package: gettext
- Maintainer: Santiago Villa
- Problem (b)depends: jikes-classpath
- Comments:
2009-05-18 - BarrydeFreese: Bug not filed yet.
2009-05-19 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed.
2009-08-16 - BarrydeFreese: Bump to Serious since jikes has now been removed.
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- Package: ldiskfsprogs
- Maintainer: Debian Lustre Packaging Team
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.4-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (515860). (Remind Clint).
2009-04-17 - BarrydeFreese: Clint filed a patch to BTS.
2009-05-07 - BarrydeFreese: db4.4 removed, now uninstallable.
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- Package: awffull
- Maintainer: Jose Carlos Medeiros
- Problem (b)depends: libdb4.5-dev
- Comments:
2009-04-15 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (517276).
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in NMU. (Clint Adams).
- Package: conglomerate
- Maintainer: Geert Stappers
- Problem (b)depends: libgtksourceview-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (542059, 541962)
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: NMU'd to DELAYED/7.
2009-08-25 - BarrydeFreese: Accepted.
- Package: mlview
- Maintainer: Sebastian Bacher
- Problem (b)depends: libgtksourceview-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (532938, includes patch)
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in NMU.
- Package: ruby-gnome2
- Maintainer: Arnaud Cornet
- Problem (b)depends: libgtksourceview-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (532902)
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- Package: aptoncd
- Maintainer: Rafael Proenca
- Problem (b)depends: libnautilus-burn-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-17 - BarrydeFreese: WTF is up with this package?
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload. (New maintainer).
- Package: grmonitor
- Maintainer: Víctor Pérez Pereira
- Problem (b)depends: glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543685)
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in NMU.
- Package: lib3ds
- Maintainer: Debian QA Group
- Problem (b)depends: glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543697)
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in QA upload.
- Package: vite
- Maintainer: Samuel Thibault
- Problem (b)depends: libglut3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543705)
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in maintainer upload.
- Package: space-orbit
- Maintainer: Eric Schwartz (Orphaned)
- Problem (b)depends: glutg3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug filed. (543703)
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in QA upload.
- Package: pdp
- Maintainer: Pablo Martin, Guenter Geiger
- Problem (b)depends: libglut3-dev
- Comments:
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Bug already filed. (394499)
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Darnit, filed a dupe. (?DebianBug: 543700)
2009-08-26 - BarrydeFreese: Fixed in QA upload.