Re: Bug#628998: RM: genext2fs -- RoQA; orphaned, low popcon

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Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>, 628998@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#628998: RM: genext2fs -- RoQA; orphaned, low popcon
From: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:21:10 +0200
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Hi d-i people!

* Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> [110602 23:26]:

> please remove genext2fs. It's orphaned and there's been no upstream release
> since 2007. Also, it seems fairly limited (#562999)

We've got the request to remove genext2fs, which appears to be used by
you:

# Broken Build-Depends:
debian-installer: genext2fs (>= 1.3-7.1)


Coul you please take a look at it, if the package is necassary, or if
you would like to adopt it?



Best Regards,
  Alexander

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