Bug#288379: O: vcg -- A Visualization Tool for compiler graphs

[malcolm.parsons@gmail.com]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:01:59PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:

> The current maintainer of vcg, Malcolm Parsons <malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net>,
> is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package
> now.  If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see
> http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
> instructions how to adopt a package properly.
> 
> Justification: Mail bounces for 2 months,

Spammers got hold of that address and used it as the from address
of lots of spam.  I couldn't cope with all the bounces.

> no upload in nearly 2 years

It's dead upstream, so uploads are unlikely.

The GUI needs to be rewritten in GTK.

Everyone who wants a tool like vcg uses the non-free graphviz package
instead.

I'm happy for someone more interested in this tool to adopt it.

-- 
Malcolm Parsons