Bug#573876: UTF-8 bugs (was: Deadline for jessie init system choice)
On 2013-12-29 23:39:41 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> I've orphaned xpp in 2010, and that's after it was as good as dead upstream
> since 2005 with no releases. The last time anyone touched the code upstream
> was in 2008.
>
> IMHO, we should just remove it from Debian. It was damn useful when it was
> current with CUPS and its toolkit, but it has accumulated too much bitrot
> already over 10 years of being abandoned upstream.
>
> It is sad. xpp really deserves better than lingering on in its currentlly
> half-broken, unloved state.
It seems that gtklp might be used as a replacement, but it was broken
too... 7 years ago, and may still be:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392184
I haven't tried since.
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