Re: Suggest to remove molphy from Debian (Was: Bug#642016: some functions return values implicitly converted to pointer)

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:05:32AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> I somehow feel this is the right moment to let molphy die.  This
> non-free, non-maintained upstream piece of very old code just drained a
> lot of my time to fix totally broken code.  While arb rdepends from
> molphy (actually provides its own copy with other problems) I would
> patch arb in a way to not need molphy any more which is most probably no
> real harm.  If nobody insits and will volunteer to fix molphy I will
> go on asking ftpmaster for removal.

Hi Andreas,

I support your choice.  I think that it would be nice to mention it on Twitter
and the debian-med blog so that users can tell us if they really needed molphy.
I (or any other volunteer) can also make a small news entry on our website.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles