Bug#686533: RM: fparser/4.5-0.1 -- RoM; RC Buggy, no more rdepends

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

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On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:13 -0400, Scott Howard wrote:
> Please remove fparser (source) from unstable. Binary packages are libfparser-
> dev, libfparser-4.3, libfparser-4.3-dbg.

Could you confirm where you're trying to get the package removed from?
You've filed the bug against release.debian.org, which implies testing,
but the above says unstable.  Then again, this:

> The Debian packages that depended on it now use the muparser library, and
> fparser has become difficult to maintain with gcc-4.7. Upstream doesn't believe
> in shared libraries, so we've been maintiaing that build system. It's gotten
> too much to worry about for Wheezy, it's best to remove it for now.

sounds more like testing.

Regards,

Adam