Re: Removal of ripole
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> nobody confirmed that bug in 3 years, so I wouldn't give it so much
> weight.
The crash also only occurs in very specific circumstances:
echo -n AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA | ripole -dAAAAAAAA
> OTOH it has quite a big popcon, 2604 of installed.
The vote metric matters more, at least 236 systems use it regularly.
> usually we don't remove a package just because it's abandoned, but we
> somehow wait for it to completely break down.
Even then, removing it doesn't improve Debian but fixing it does.
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bye,
pabs
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