Re: Removal of grace, pygrace and expeyes
Grace is one of the most useful packages in the entire archive.
I am not aware of anything other package that provides the same degree
of functionality.
Removing it is not a good idea.
Drew
On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 16:10 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > I've attached a patch that changes grace to use its embedded t1lib
> > copy. This is not at all ideal since probably most of the t1lib
> > security patches aren't included, but grace is the last package
> > remaining to drop support for t1lib, so it needs a change.
>
> Swapping a buggy package for an old embedded buggy package is not a
> solution. It's not just "far from ideal", it is not even worth
> considering.
>
> I'm seeking the removal of pygrace and expeyes so that grace can be
> removed. CC'ing the relevant maintainers (and filing important bugs for
> each package). I expect the removal to start in two weeks unless I hear
> back about a viable solution.
>
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