Bug#593886: O: cvsnt -- Improved multiplatform version of the original CVS

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:05:02PM +0200, Andreas Tscharner wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I intend to orphan the cvsnt package.
> 
> The package description is:
>  CVSNT is an advanced multiplatform version control system. Compatible
>  with the industry standard CVS protocol it now supports many more
>  features.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>  See http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/ for further information
> 
> 
> There are two reasons for orphaning:
> 1) I don't use it anymore. I have switched to a DVCS
> 2) Upstream will sell cvsnt (community edition as they call it) in the future.
> This is possible in compliance with the GPL. For a possible future maintainer,
> there is a free and anonymous CVS read access, but this can be terminated
> without further notice at any time.
> 
> The package suffers a critical bug and should be updated or even better
> removed from Debian.

In light of 2) we should rather remove it than continuing to include
it in Squeeze. It also has hardly any users in popcon.

Cheers,
        Moritz