remove xview?
Hi,
After considering porter NMU on xview, I think x11 toolkit can safely
be canned as museumware. Most damning is the lack of 64bit support.
See #228957 and #320155, although a patch was produduced nobody bothered,
applying it, nor is the author confident that patch is correct.
The upstream is much more dead the gtk-1.2 which has also been considered
for removal. There appears to be five reverse dependencies, none of which
seem to be a big loss of functionalyty. Maintainers of affected packages CC'd.
xview
- not available on 64bit architectures
- upstream dead. last (minor) upstream version released 1997
- last maintainer upload 2 years ago
- only few reverse dependencies
- relatevely low popcon count 500
reverse dependencies:
xvmount
- multiple replacements available
- low popcon count 74
- last upstream release 2003
circlepack
- only xviewg-depending package without non-xview replacement
- low popcon count 20
- last upstream release 2002
imaze
- package includes xaw and lesstiff versions too
- xview version has low popcon count 79
-> drop xview version
workman
- multiple replacements available
- low popcon count (82)
- last upstream release 1997
jove:
- xview only needed for xjove
- xjove has low popcon count 23
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