Bug#947979: enchant -> enchant-2 transition: Time to purge enchant(1)?

[Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>]

Hi Alexander,

在 2020-09-03星期四的 18:17 +0300，Alexander Gerasiov写道：
> On Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:25:01 -0400
> Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > X-Debbugs-CC: gq@debian.org elbrus@debian.org bigon@debian.org
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 14:08:24 +0200 Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
> > wrote:
> > > # We don't want to ship two enchants in bullseye. Dear
> > > maintainers,
> > > # you can lower the severity until December 2020 if you have a
> > > plan  
> > to
> > > # fix the issue before the bullseye transition freeze, but please
> > > # document that in the bug in case you do.  
> > 
> > Now, according to 
> > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/enchant-2.html ,
> > package
> > xenur ( https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xneur ) is the last package
> > that (build-)depends on enchant(1). This package has been under
> > FTBFS
> > status due to GCC-10 since July and was removed in Testing.
> > 
> > I believe we can make some early move and remove enchant(1) from
> > Sid
> > (and natually Testing) now. Alexander: if you still need enchant(1)
> > these months, please let me know; this removal can be postponed
> > till
> > December 2020 (but will surely happen after that). Otherwise I am
> > looking into opening a RM bug against FTP Masters about 1 week
> > later
> > and finally finish this longlasting transition.
> Sorry for the delay, I'll take a look on the package later, but feel
> free to remove enchant.


Thanks, I will go ahead with the RM bug.

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Regards,
Boyuan Yang