Bug#183373: RM: libmetakit2.4.9.3 -- RoQA; orphaned, no reverse deps

[Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>]

retitle 183373 RM: libmetakit2.4.9.3 -- RoQA; orphaned, no reverse deps
reassign 183373 ftp.debian.org
thanks

Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> writes:

>  Yes, most propably.  Sorry, was on vacations the last two weeks, just
> got back and luk pinged me about this bugreport:
>
> #v+
> <luk> Rhonda: do you mind answering #183373?
> <Rhonda> Was on vacations since 4th, just returned. :)
> <Rhonda> So I haven't seen that mail yet.  And I'm pretty happy with it
>         getting removed, I don't think anyone is going to adopt it, no
>         matter how many people raised "interest" over time ...
> <Rhonda> I tried to package the latest upstream version for a while, but
>         the upstream maintainer isn't really good with libtool (breaks
>         API/ABI with each release) and dropped --release support which
>         made me able to package it properly in the first place.
> <Rhonda> Will answer, yes.
> #v-
>
>  Furthermore to not being able to make any use of the later upstream
> releases my reasons for maintaining it went away long ago, and I don't
> see any other reverse dependencies, just a suggest as database backend
>>From one single package which can happily use any of the other supported
> backends.

OK, reassigning.

Thanks,

Matej