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Removing efax



Hi,

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 20:13:59 +0200, Matej Vela wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:28:23 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 13:12:23 +0200, Matej Vela wrote:
> > > Do you still intend to adopt efax?  (This is just a ping, I'm not
> > > interested in adopting it myself.)
> >
> > Yes. Sorry for the delay.
>
> Sorry for nagging, but can you do an upload to avoid the debconf mass
> bug filing?  Alternatively, mind if I do a QA upload?

On second thought, maybe we should simply remove efax?  It hasn't had
an upstream release in 5 years [1], it chokes on files produced by
dvi2fax [2], and we have better maintained alternatives [3] [4].

[1] <http://www.cce.com/efax/download/efax-0.9a-001114.tar.gz>
[2] <http://bugs.debian.org/175239>
[3] <http://packages.debian.org/mgetty-fax>
[4] <http://packages.debian.org/hylafax-server>

Thanks,

Matej



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