Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal Hi, The current problem is simple. I did an ITP of libconfig[1], a simple and efficient C/C++ library for parsing configuration file. This library is written by Mark Linder, and is well maintained. Filling the ITP, I knew there was already libconfig in Debian. So I asked Abraham vd Merwe <abz@debian.org> who is the current maintainer of libconfig if he can rename or remove its package. He responded negatively. And I do think this package should be removed from Debian. My arguments are the following: abz's libconfig is old, non used (no reverse-dependencies) and has only 40 installs according to popcon[2]. Furthermore, it's packaged as a native Debian package and does not seems to be distributed anywhere. I don't see the point to have a "personnal" package which is not used apart from its Debian-maintainer-author in the archive, and blocking packaging of better and maintained software. I asked for suggestions on the debian-devel list[3], without many help apart renaming the library, which is a mess and does not seems a very good idea. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/438683 [2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libconfig [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/08/msg00933.html Cheers, -- Julien Danjou .''`. Debian Developer : :' : http://julien.danjou.info `. `' http://people.debian.org/~acid `- 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6 8974 C95C A462 B51E C2FE E5CD
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