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Re: remove libphp-phplot and acidlab from lenny



Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as documented by #435176 and then #495083 libphp-phplot has been
> unusable since May 2007. In fact, it has been empty(!) since May 2008,
> i.e. for over four months, with no-one actually noticing until a bug
> report was filed in mid-August (unanswered for a month) - welcome to the
> wonderful world of diligent maintainer testing before upload.
> It has one reverse dependency, acidlab. No-one seems to have cared about
> acidlab being uninstallable or with unusable dependency for a year either.
> acidlab had previously been removed from unstable for neglect and
> libphp-phplot also had managed to raise QA concerns (#475757) which the
> maintainer violently. IMO it might be time to think about removal from
> unstable as well, but I'll leave that up to the QA people.

I just had a very brief look, and besides of the problems you already
mentioned, I noticed that the md5sum of the orig.tar.gz differs from the
upstream tar.gz (for no good reason afaics)
Also, debhelper compat in debian/compat is 4, but the build-depends only
has debhelper (>> 3.0.0).

Michael

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