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Bug#506790: hyperestraier: Should this package be orphaned or removed?



On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:54:09PM +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote:
> > Package: hyperestraier
> > Usertags: proposed-orphan
> [...]
> > * Package does not appear to have any reverse depends or reverse
> >   build-depends other than it's own binaries.
> 
> mew and mew-beta (mail reader for Emacs) have the dependency
> `Suggests: hyperestraier' to use the full-text search feature.

The kazehakase package (GTK+ web browser) depends (as of 0.5.6-1; it
incorrectly only recommended hyperestraier before which was more than
useless) on libestraier for its history search plugin.  This is very
important functionality that has no match (TTBOMK) among other
browsers.

> I hope hyperestraier will be maintained.

Likewise.  Is there any progress on the ITA?



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