Bug#661141: RM: uxlaunch -- ROM; Upstream development died together with MeeGo, doubles nodm functionality, ~zero popcon

[Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi dear FTP Masters team,

I hereby request the removal of uxlaunch from the archive:

- uxlaunch was packaged as part of the pkg-meego effort; while MeeGo has
  no future anymore;
- uxlaunch upstream has seen _one_ commit in the last seven months, so it's
  not a vibrant upstream project;
- uxlaunch doubles functionality already present in nodm and presents no real
  advantage over it (none of both has non-linux support e.g.);
- uxlaunch has a popcon of 17, obviously not widely used;
- thanks to snapshot.debian.org, anyone will be able to re-start the packaging
  from the 0.60 version (upstream's 0.64) and fix the remaining bugs;
- I have no time nor motivation to get that package up to date for Wheezy.

So; readers of the bug (hi debian-mobile@ !), if you want to keep uxlaunch in
Debian, please reassign this bug as an "Orphaning" bug and adopt uxlaunch. :-)

Cheers,

OdyX