Bug#673701: RM: qtdmm/0.8.13-3
On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 22:26 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Even upstream has given up on qtdmm to make the transition to current
> Qt/KDE standards and develops QtDMM 2, which is not packaged for Debian.
> Now Debian will not continue the maintenance of the older libraries
> and Ana today sent #604578, suggesting to initiate the removal of
> anything depending on those older libraries. The package has a rather
> surprisingly high user base >200 on popcon and needs little maintenance.
> It is sad to see it go, but if it shall be, so be it. For the fragile
> Linux community of electroengineers it would be neat to directly offer
> QtDMM2 as a substitute. But I am too busy to address that.
In that case, should the package not be removed from the archive
entirely - i.e. from unstable - rather than just from testing? It
doesn't seem particularly productive to remove it from testing just to
have it languish unmaintained and unusable in unstable.
Regards,
Adam
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