Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi,

sapphire has not seen a new upstream release since 2002 (!), and
upstream seems to have stopped working on it long long time ago.
Furthermore:
- the upstream website is a SourceForce page that only hosts very old
  releases, and has no source repositories
- I cannot find anywhere a potential repository that continues the
  development
- the last maintainer upload was in 2009, and since then it got only
  one NMU in 2017
- currently FTBFSes due to the very old packaging
- it has a very low popcon count (19 at the time I'm writing this)
- plenty of alternatives ("minimalist/lightweights" WMs) exist

Hence, it looks to me it would be a better idea to simply remove
sapphire from Debian.

Thanks,

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

  sapphire | 0.15.8-9.1 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x

------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; FTBFS; dead upstream; unmaintained; very low popcon
----------------------------------------------

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall run at the earliest.

Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
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from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
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We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package
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Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
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