Quoting Hideki Yamane (henrich@debian.or.jp): > > $ LANG=C apt-rdepends -r --show=Depends,Suggests,Recommends -f=Depends,Suggests,Recommends defoma It's good that you built this list. Maybe time for adding all these packages on the wiki page and track reported bugs there? > And, some people sometimes claimed against dropping defoma work, see > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583956 or so. Well, anybody claiming against dropping defoma should start by maintaining defoma. This package is an old horse full of rotting bugs. > > Now here is a question. > > 1. first of all, should we continue this "defoma drop" work? As Paul said, yes. > 2. if its answer is yes, what is its schedule or plan? As Paul said, no plan. We should move on as we can. I'm sorry that I mostly reduced my pkg-fonts work to sero last months after the big bump back in late 2009. That may be easily resumed with such a task. I like things that I can count and complete to 100% :-) > 3. then, we should post to devel-announce about this work (its benefit, > how to do that, schedule, deadline, etc) to get consensus. I can't really explain the benefit of dropping defoma except by explaining that it is a piece of old crap that GUI specialists seem to agree became that it became useless over time..:-)... It's a bit short argument for a post to d-d-a, though..:)
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