There are only 24 packages left using dpatch and the vast majority of remaining uses are packages which haven't seen a maintainer upload for a decade or longer.

Some of these have existing "please migrate to source format 3(quilt)" bugs already
and in the interest of more streamlined packaging workflows and eliminating technical
debt I think it's time to remove dpatch for bookworm.

So unless there's objections, I'd bump existing bugs to RC and file bugs where they don't exist. And anything that doesn't get fixed/NMUd/removed can then
be removed along with dpatch before the bookworm freeze.

Breakdown of remaining packages grouped by the year they've seen their last maintainer upload:

2006:
efax
vdk2

2007:
syrep
tapecalc

2008:
cryptcat
flexbackup
xcal

2009:
redet
spell

2010:
elscreen
myspell
scim-canna
scim-skk
vsdump
xxgdb

2011:
bopm
gkrellm-x86info
ibam
lifelines

2013:
cadaver
dvbsnoop

2018:
mgetty

2019:
libdumbnet

2021:
qmc

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hi Moritz,

On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 12:35:12AM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:

There are only 24 packages left using dpatch and the vast majority of remaining
uses are packages which haven't seen a maintainer upload for a decade or longer.

[...]

So unless there's objections, I'd bump existing bugs to RC and file bugs where
they don't exist. And anything that doesn't get fixed/NMUd/removed can then be removed along with dpatch before the bookworm freeze.

yay, thanks for this cleanup work!


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On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 12:35:12AM +0100, Moritz M�hlenhoff wrote:

There are only 24 packages left using dpatch and the vast majority of remaining
uses are packages which haven't seen a maintainer upload for a decade or longer.

Some of these have existing "please migrate to source format 3(quilt)" bugs already
and in the interest of more streamlined packaging workflows and eliminating technical
debt I think it's time to remove dpatch for bookworm.

So unless there's objections, I'd bump existing bugs to RC and file bugs where
they don't exist. And anything that doesn't get fixed/NMUd/removed can then be removed along with dpatch before the bookworm freeze.

ACK, thank you very much for taking charge of this!

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