Re: Is removing smell from packages OK? (Was: Why? "Marked for autoremoval on 24 March due to xdelta3: #965883")
Hi Philip,
Am Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 10:09:29AM +0100 schrieb Philip Hands:
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> FWIW I also started work on xdelta3 when I saw the removal warning for
> installation-guide, but when I got to the point of creating a repo on
> salsa you'd beaten me to it by about an hour :-)
Nice. ;-)
May be I should sleep one hour longer and than I have extra spare time
since somebody else might solve my problems in that time. ;-P
> I'd gone for a slightly lighter-touch approach, in that I'd only done
> about half of what you'd done, but having looked, you had clearly done a
> much more thorough job, and I had nothing to add.
Thanks.
> Given that the bug that's threatening its removal (#965883) has been
> ignored for almost 2 years, and is about the fact that it had a dh
> compat version of 5, which is completely trivial to fix, so the package
> certainly has the look of having been abandoned, which is why I think
> it's fine to do what you did, and I think you did a very good job of it.
Thank you for you support
Andreas.
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