Bug#257994: O: freehoo -- console Yahoo messenger client with guile and readline interfaces
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I am not able to do full justice to all my packages, as things are a
bit busy right now. Freehoo depends on the (currently) broken package
libyahoo2. Freehoo has not seen any activity upstream in quite
sometime, and has several grave bugs outstanding in the BTS. I would
be tempted to completely remove this package, but want to initially
orphan this, just in case there are aficionados of this package, who
are able to provide it TLC.
The package description is:
Purely console based Yahoo messenger client application which has
geeky "readline" and "guile" interfaces. It connects to the Yahoo
server using the "libyahoo" library.
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Freehoo is highly extensible through the scheme language. Readline
support means that it has powerful command-line editing and history
features. It supports almost all of the features of the conventional
Yahoo messenger for example email alert, conference, ignore, etc. It
also has numerous additional features not contained in the original
client.
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Freehoo was formerly called gnuyahoo, whose name was changed due to
concerns about trademarks. The old gnuyahoo debian package is
deprecated and exists only as a dummy package to install freehoo, but
will be dropped in future.
Gopal
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Gopal Narayanan <gopal@debian.org> <gopal@astro.umass.edu>
Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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