bookletimposer: remove + maintainer email address update

[necessarily-equal]

Description of changes

As the NixOS package maintainer, I recommend deleting the BookletImposer package. This PR deletes BookletImposer, as it is now broken both on unstable and 23.11, and seems unmaintained.

The package stopped working with PyPDF 3.0, which NixOS now uses. The forge is now down, and I tried contacting the author by mail without answer as of today. I think removing this package from unstable and 23.11 makes sense.

Things done

• 24.05 Release Notes (or backporting 23.05 and 23.11 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

Questions

1. Should I delete the package in stable as well? In that case, can somebody add the "stable-backport" label to this PR? (I assume this would cherry-pick cleanly)
2. Under which section should I add an entry in the release notes? I don't see a "breaking change" or "package removal" section here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md
3. If we backport this to stable, should this also be added to the 23.11 release notes?

[Luflosi]

You should add the package to pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix. Look for examples with throw.

[necessarily-equal]

Thanks, updated

[Luflosi]

Cc @afontain and @Artturin

[Luflosi]

As the NixOS package maintainer, I recommend deleting the BookletImposer package

This sounds like you're saying that you're the NixOS maintainer of bookletimposer but you're not in the list of maintainers:

maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ afontain ];

and you've never changed the pkgs/applications/office/bookletimposer/default.nix file before so what do you mean by what you said?

That question aside, I think removing this package is reasonable.

[Luflosi]

Given that the git hoster shut down at the end of March 2023 and the maintainer of the package hasn't picked a new one yet, I think it's reasonable to assume that this project is dead.
See https://web.archive.org/web/20230623172617/https://git.codecoop.org/ and https://so36.net/news/codecoop-migration.html.

[necessarily-equal]

For the maintainer thing, the name -> github name correspondance can be seen in /maintainers/maintainer-list.nix. It's a bit confusing I'll admit.

This also made me notice that this email address was outdated, I've added a commit to fix that if that's ok for you.

[adisbladis]

We don't normally backport removals, but since this package is broken at runtime already in 23.11 this case is an exception.

[github-actions]

Successfully created backport PR for release-23.11:

• [Backport release-23.11] bookletimposer: remove + maintainer email address update #278263