Dear maintainer,

I suggest removing acedb from Debian for the following reasons:
 * It accumulated one RC-bug:
   + #1066334: acedb: FTBFS: acein.c:2045:15: error: implicit declaration of function ‘add_history’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
     Last modified: 1 year, 1 month

 * It is not part of trixie or forky and is not a key 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 evaluate each of the
RC-bugs listed above.
 * If the bug is meant to permanently prevent the package from entering testing
   or a stable release, but this package should stay part of unstable, please
   add a usertag:

       user helmutg@debian.org
       usertags NNN + sidremove-ignore

 * If the bug no longer applies, please close it. If it is closed, check
   whether the fixed version is correct and adjust if necessary.

 * Is the bug really release-critical? If not, please downgrade.

 * If the bug still applies, please send a status update at least once a year.

Once all of the mentioned RC bugs have been acted upon in one way or another,
please close this bug.

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

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

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.

Kind regards

A tool for automatically removing packages from unstable

This bug report has been automatically filed with little human intervention.
If the filing is unclear or in error, don't hesitate to contact
Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> for assistance.

Le Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 08:06:12PM -0000, Helmut Grohne a écrit :

Thanks Helmut

In my impression, acedb is not used anymore, and running it for historical
reasons can be done easily with a container running an old version of Debian.

So I think that we can let it go.

What do the other people think?

Charles

Am Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 08:07:01AM +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:

Ohhh, I noticed I've even pushed a fix.  Please let me check
why I did not uploaded.  It would be a shame to have this work
wasted and we can remove it at next issue. ;-)

Kind regards
   Andreas.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
acedb, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1147991@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> (supplier of updated acedb package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:04:05 +0200
Source: acedb
Architecture: source
Version: 4.9.39+dfsg.02-10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Closes: 1066334 1134595 1147991
Changes:
 acedb (4.9.39+dfsg.02-10) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Andreas Tille ]
   * Fix gcc-14 build issues
      - Add missing readline/history.h header
      - Definition of AceType is broken since it redefines _Int with different
        meaning than in whooks/systags.h
      - Do not include wh/acelib_.h in wh/lex.h to avoid conflicting type
        definitions; regular.h and keyset.h provide the needed types
      - Add missing declarations for dnaDumpKeyCstyle/peptideDumpKeyCstyle
      - Add missing standard headers to efetch.c and dbidx.c
      - Include acelib.h in metadata.c and dna.h/peptide.h in dump.c
      - Fix old-style function pointer declarations that break gcc-15
     Closes: #1066334, #1147991
   * Build-Depends: libtirpc-dev
   * Replace pkg-config with pkgconf in Build-Depends
   * Install acediff and acediffsorted (ACE format diff tools) with man pages
   * Fix Homepage
     Closes: #1134595
   * Reformat the Last-Update date as ISO YYYY-MM-DD.
   * Remove redundant Priority: optional from source stanza.
   * Update standards version to 4.7.4, no changes needed.
   * cme fix dpkg-control
   * Add autopkgtest
   * d/watch:
      - Version=5
      - Fix
   * Fix DEP3 fields
 .
   [ Jeremy Sowden ]
   * Fixes for missing declarations
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