Re: Removing libctk ?
Heya,
* Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> [20040207 17:02]:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 04:30:42PM +0100, Andreas Kotes wrote:
> > * Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> [20040207 15:52]:
> > > I was looking at the list of RC bugs in orphaned packages and
> > > investigated libctk.
> > >
> > > Last upstream version is dated from January 2002[0] and no
> > > package in the archive depends on this library.
> > >
> > > I think we should consider removing it. Comments?
> >
> > unless someone can point another decent console UI library, preferably
> > also with GTK-style API, I'd opt for keeping it, as long as there is an
> > active maintainer (at least for the package).
>
> Hmm, it is orphaned for over hundred days now and there is no sign of
> activity in the bug report.
hmmm.
> The RC bug seems not to complicated (standard libtool-outdated bug).
> I didn't quite understood the important bug at a first glance.
well, would have to look closer into that.
> As long as noone intends to adopt this package I don't think we should
> keep it in Debian.
well, I'd do it, but haven't done that before, and don't currently have
any packages or sponsoring. I'd be interested and willing to adopt this
and maybe other packages, if someone would sponsor and coach me until I
got going. Been planning to do so for a long time, but never found the
guts to make it fact.
Count
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