Bug#817592: myspell: Removal of debhelper compat 4
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:02:33AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > If people really rely on this oboslete software they should adopt it.
> > But: I believe myspell should be removed. It actually should have been
> > *years* ago.
>
> This is not obvious from the outside, so from my perspective I was fixing
> an outstanding RC bug at a BSP. In that context, I do not believe what I
> did was a waste of time.
Yeah, sure, you can't know.
See e.g.
https://packages.qa.debian.org/m/myspell/news/20070527T151507Z.html
> If you feel it should be RM'd, please file such a bug :)
Tried that a few years ago already, which ended up in the above -
not going to play this game again..
(I hoped testing autoremoval would kick in, but apparently there's some
(key?) dictionary packages needing it so it didn't happen.)
Regards,
Rene
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