Bug#196473: Really, really ancient standards versions
Quoting Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>:
> reassign 184670 ftp.debian.org
> retitle 184670 Please remove epic
> thanks
>
> * Pascal Hakim <pasc@redellipse.net> [2004-02-29 09:39]:
> > > epic: QA group maintained
> >
> > Do we even need epic? There's epic4 in the archive...
>
> Oh, interesting. The only reason stopping me from removing it was
> that many people use epic. I didn't know there was a separate,
> maintained epic4 package.
Yes. epic is epic3, which is no longer maintained upstream. It has some fairly
hefty differences in the scripting engine too. All epic scripts in Derbian
(that I'm aware of) are epic4 scripts.
On a related note: epic4-script-splitfire is no longer maintained upstream.
It's a horrible mess of code and orphaned (maintained by QA).
I had a look at it recently and with changes made to the epic4 scripting engine
it's almost unusable (most of the eybindings broke for example). I'd say it's
certainly ripe for a "unless someone maintains this, it should be removed" call.
Anyone who does want to maintain it would need to know a fair bit about epic4
scripting...as it stands there's a fair bit of work required to make it work
again properly. It's close to needing a rewrite from scratch.
--
Stephen Stafford
<stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk>
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