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Bug#462178: please remove this package



Hi Raphael,

On Tuesday 12 February 2008 02:01, you wrote:
> > I saw your mail to this bug, but I consider QA work team work :-)
> Sure it is :)

Cheers :)

(I didn't really think (at all) you were objecting to this, I just had to make 
that point :)

> But if you re-read the bug report you will see that the necessary
> changes to fix it aren't many (but I should probably reconsider that
> because of /proc not existing in newer kernels, starting with .24?)

Yet, noone has done it for four years. Also I dont think it would be that 
easy... and anyway: IPX is mostly dead and those still using it have probably 
old boxes running it already...

> I've already requested its removal from stable :)

Then I really dont understand why you wait with removing it from sid. Anybody 
interested to pick it up can get it from various archives...

> I don't see any real problem on keeping this report a few more days on
> wnpp to give people the opportunity to see it is up for adoption.

They had this chance for 4 years.

> IMO some people prefer to fix an existing package than to 'Debianise'
> from scratch, hence my desire to keep it a few more days.
> But if you believe it really makes no sense at all to keep the report
> open on wnpp feel free to reassign it to ftp.debian.org with a correct
> removal request subject and CC me so I update packages-actions.txt

I'll leave this to you :-)


regards,
	Holger

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