Re: removal of sdm source package
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:01:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:19:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I hope Jonas Smedegaard is around and watching :-)
>
> Huh - am I allowed to watch only?!?
No. If you are interested, please join.
It looks like I should have waited a bit longer after my first BTS mail
to this package before sending the last one.
> >As you will see in BTS #449973, upstream states:
> >
> >> without some GUI dialog implementation, it's nearly useless. so other
> >> than sentimental attachment, i don't see much point for it to remain
> >> in debian...
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449973
> > (.... this package depends on removed xdialog package)
> >
> >This sdm source package also need to be removed.
> >There is ldm which sdm's original upstream maintain and works.
>
> I kept quiet during your conversation with upstream. That does not mean
> that I agree with upstream.
>
> Could we please discuss this properly first?
Please.
What is your plan and thought? Please let us know.
(I did not see you have followed up any open bug reports on this
package. Your last upload of this package is in 2006. This is some
package which claims to help security and this does not look nice
situation and attracted my attention.)
Osamu
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