Re: "Package was removed from Debian because of a variable name" myth (?) (was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?)

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2022-01-23 11:38, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:17:25AM +0000, mick crane wrote:
> > I was a little concerned about the direction of travel when that 
> > software
> > got removed from the repository because of variable names.
>
> If you're referring to the WebOOB package, that was not why it was
> removed and incorrect statements like that are not helpful.
>
> This diff might give you an idea of some of the problems with this
> software (sadly broken TLS setup so have to click through warning):
>
>
> https://gitlab.com/woob/woob/-/merge_requests/228/diffs#85eabf8cd7ee0b4611976309bd723f6ad7b301c4_785_784
>
> If you are referring to some other package, I'm not recalling it.
> Can you remind me which one it was please?

That'll be it.

mick

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