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Re: xpdf removed from testing?



On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:21 +0100
> Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I like that program very
> > much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead
> > upstream?
> 
> That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one problem that arguably makes
> fixing the other seven harder. So 7.5 reasons to remove it from testing.

OK; OK, I understand completely. As a follow-up: according to popcon
there are about 10 000 installations of that package. Any
interest/chance that patches will help re-introduce this package, or is
it just a waste of effort? What is the opinion of the maintainers?



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