On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 06:57:54PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > xinvaders: non-free, orphaned 7 months ago from an MIA maintainer. One > "normal" (although I think by now it's probably serious, given it's > an FHS bug) and a couple of wishlist bugs with patches in the BTS. > Especially since it's non-free, and hasn't had a QA upload *or* a > regular upload in 2.5 years, I think it should be binned. There's > also xinv3d which does the same sort of thing anyway. > > xtrojka: another non-free, 11 months orphaned, just another random game > nobody seems to care about. 1 pretty important bug, 1 minor, both > with patches. > > figurine: main this time, with 3 pretty emphatic bugs on it (all from the > same person, who knows?). No uploads in 1.5 years, does basically > the same job as xfig and dia. > > qcl: 4 month old RC bug, absolutely no interest from anyone to fix it. > Nothing in twelve months. Has an incredibly limited audience > (quantum computing researchers). Upstream says that it won't work > with GCC 3.x (mentions it explicitly, so it sounds like they've had > this problem before...). It will be a pain to keep. > > libdsp: orphaned from an MIA maintainer 7 months ago. One pretty important > bug outstanding, nobody cares enough to fix it. No uploads in 2.5 > years, upstream has moved on considerably. > > sciplot: as per libdsp, pretty much. > > Didn't look at anything less than 200 days old, so that's it. > > Does anyone else have any opinions on the removal of these packages? Rip 'em out. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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