Hello FTP team,

I packaged pyrcb2 when trying to create a debian packaging for a
Python IRC bot. I packaged it under the Debian Python Team as
maintainer for making it easier for others to contribute, but
that never happened.

Considering:

- The package did not have any upstream release in 3 years [1].
- Other librares are available and more mature to create IRC bots in
  Debian [2].
- The package currently has no known rdepends (used the reverse-depends
  command, could not connect to the ftp-masters mirror).
- The popcon score of the package is 4 [3].
- The package has 2 serious bugs [4] (FTBFS and Python 3.12 migration)
  that the Python team should probably not waste any efforts to fix
  given this package was probably only used by me.

I think we should RM this package from the archive.

I only asked for unstable, but maybe we also should remove it from
stable so that it does not stays a burden for the duration of a stable
release's life.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks.

Agathe.

[1] https://github.com/taylordotfish/pyrcb2
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/limnoria
[3] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pyrcb2
[4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=pyrcb2

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

    pyrcb2 |    0.6.2-2 | source
python-pyrcb2-doc |    0.6.2-2 | all
python3-pyrcb2 |    0.6.2-2 | all

------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; Not maintained upstream, no rdepends
----------------------------------------------

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
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.

We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package
automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed
correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1064640@bugs.debian.org.

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