Dear Martina and Ruby team,

I suggest removing larch from Debian for the following reasons:

 * Upstream has archived the git repository back in 2017
 * The package is failing its autopkgtest in Salsa CI[1] with the
   message: Could not find 'highline'
 * Upstream author said in the metadata that it works with highline 1.x,
   and we are now at 3.x. does it still work? who knows,
   there is no test suite
 * Failing the autopkgtest will prevent the package to testing
   so we will create a RC bug sooner or later.
 * There are very few votes (green line) in popcon
https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=larch&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
 * The last upload of this package was in 2016 - is there any
   remaining interest in maintaining this package?

This bug serves as a pre-removal warning. After one month, the bug will be
reassigned to ftp.debian.org to actually request removal of the package.

In case the package should be kept in unstable, please provide some
information how we could sensibly fix the autopkgtest.  I'd happily
volunteer to finalise the upload if you can either provide patch here
or commit a solution to Git.

In case the package should be removed from unstable, you may reassign this
bug report:

    Control: severity -1 normal
    Control: retitle -1 RM: larch -- RoM; rc-buggy
    Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
    Control: affects -1 + src:larch

Alternatively, you may wait a month and have it reassigned.

In case you disagree with the above, please add a wontfix tag to this bug.

    Control: tags -1 + wontfix

Doing so will also prevent automatic reassignment.

This package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[2] initiative, which
aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through
the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating
packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to help newcomers become familiar
with a consistent Git-based workflow.

Kind regards
   Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/larch/-/jobs/7897195
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. This is a package I prepared back in the day because the tool was useful to me during some server migrations, but I don't think I have used it since. So I agree to remove it from the archive.

Martina.

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

     larch |  1.1.2-2.1 | source, all

------------------- Reason -------------------
RoM; abandoned upstream
----------------------------------------------

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
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