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Re: Remove c2man from testing



On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 19:13:44 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> said: 

>> Package: c2man Testing: 2.41-16 Unstable: 2.41-16 Suggestion:
>> remove-from-testing remove-from-unstable Analysis: c2man has been
>> dead upstream for years (which was, so far, not a problem), and
>> does not work with modern C/C++ programs -- which _is_ a
>> problem. The functionality has been superseded with packages like
>> doxygen; it has been requested that c2man be removed from Sid.
>> (Grave Bug#192016)

> Yikes.

> I grepped Sources.gz for c2man, and there are three.

> dmachinemon, libvformat wine

	Are they really using c2man? I could reverse the d3ecision to
 drop c2man, and just orphan it (the bug that broke the camels back
 was originally of severity important). c2man has indeed been dead for
 years, and I don't think it is worth the effort to fix the problems.

	manoj
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