Bug#287992: ITA: gkdial -- PPP dial-up configuration and dialing tool
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:15:20PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
> Em Seg, 2005-08-15 ??s 18:06 +0200, Matej Vela escreveu:
> > Do you still intend to adopt gkdial? (This is just a ping, I'm not
> > interested in adopting it myself.)
>
> Yes. The problem is that gkdial is very old and broken code. Even
> according to the author and ex-maintainer, it's garbage.
>
> I've been working on a new upstream major version, and that's why there
> has been no progress on the package yet.
Would you mind if we remove it for the time being? It didn't ship with
sarge, isn't in a usable state, and takes up time (e.g. Bug#323514) that
would be better spent on other packages. You can always resurrect it
once it's ready (the NEW queue is pretty fast these days)...
Thanks,
Matej
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