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Bug#228046: O: phplib -- Library for easy writing web applications (stable version)



Hi,


On Fri, Jan 16 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: 
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:55:18AM +0100, Stijn de Bekker wrote:
> > I intend to orphan the phplib package as I leave the Debian project due
> > to a lack of time.
> 
> > The package description is:
> >  The library will help you to write medium and large sized
> >  data-driven web applications. "Medium to larged applications" are
> >  applications that consists of multiple database queries, have to
> >  generate tables from database data, need a user interface that
> >  generates SQL queries or need a comfortable and user-friendly way
> >  to protect pages or functionality on pages. "Data-driven"
> >  applications are applications that make use of a supported SQL
> >  databse to create HTML content and that use HTML forms to drive
> >  database transactions.
> >  .
> >  This is the official stable version
> >  .
> >  More information can be found at the phplib web site
> >  http://phplib.sourceforge.net/
> 
> There are no other packages in the archive which depend on phplib, and
> much of phplib's functionality was superseded by developments in version
> 4 of the PHP language, so I think it would be better to request removal
> instead of orphaning this.  Do you agree?

Hmmm good point. Yes I do agree; it was one of the reasons of my lack
of interest in phplib. The software is hardly maintained anymore
upstream.

Shall I file a bug against ftp.debian.org and ask for removal of the
packages?


Stijn.

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