Bug#336478: RFA: libkpathsea-perl

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

reassign 336478 ftp.debian.org
retitle 336478 ftp.debian.org: please remove libkpathsea-perl from the archive
thanks

I have heard no offers for this RFA, so I would like to request the
removal of the package libkpathsea-perl from the unstable and testing
archives.

Thanks!

   Julian

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:03:54PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> 
> I really don't have the interest at the moment to maintain this
> package.  In the days when fonts were being generated regularly and
> machines were slower, I had hoped that this would provide a faster
> and, eventually, more secure way of doing things.  However, it seems
> that a better way to do things more securely would be simply to have a
> daemon running mktex* on demand.  I haven't used this package myself
> now in a while, there were obscure bugs that I couldn't fix and I
> haven't been keeping up with the changes in SWIG, Perl and of course
> the mktex* scripts.
> 
> So if anyone is interested in taking over this Perl interface to the
> kpathsea library, please adopt this package!
> 
> If it's not adopted by the time libkpathsea3 is dropped from the
> distro, I will ask for its removal from the archive.
> 
>    Julian