Bug#312208: Please remove postit, newsflash
retitle 312209 RM: postit; RoQA: orphaned, dead upstream, no users, plenty of alternatives
retitle 312208 RM: newsflash; RoQA: orphaned, dead upstream, few users, plenty of alternatives
reassign 312209 ftp.debian.org
reassign 312208 ftp.debian.org
thanks
Both orphaned since June 2005, with nobody expressing an interest
in picking them up.
Both dead upstream; upstream website does not exist anymore. The
most recent upstream appears to be available in Debian stable. The
packaging has been updated since then.
postit: 0 popcon installs.
newsflash: 8 popcon installs, 2 votes.
newsflash interacts with the user in postinst without using debconf
(bug 95249).
Alternatives: suck and rpost ('suck' package) are a pretty close
alternative; also inn/inn2 for some applications, and probably others.
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