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Re: removal of bg5cc and bg5ps



On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:17:42AM +1300, Carlos Z.F. Liu wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:14:41PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > Hi Carlos and debian-chinese-big5
> > 
> > I'm currently looking over all packages owned by the Debian QA Group and
> > request their removal if they don't seem to be usefull anymore. 
> > 
> > The packages bg5cc and bg5ps are currently orphaned and nobody
> > volunteered to adpot them. These packages help processing big5 encoded
> > text. As I know nothing about the big5 encoding and it's usefullness
> > today, it is hard for me to judge if these packages should be removed or
> > not. I have attached the research I've done so far. 
> > 
> > Please tell me if these packages are still usefull to you or if I can
> > request their removal from Debian. If you would like them  to stay in
> > Debian, we need a new maintainer for these two packages.
> > 
> I heard that someone want to adopt bg5cc and keep it in Debian archive.
> It's still useful for people in Taiwan who just start to learn
> programming.
If someone is willing to adopt the packgae he/she should retitle Bug
#189818. Unless this happens everything else are just rumors...

Do you have any names so I can directly contact this person?

Gaudenz

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