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Bug#911774: O: xview -- XView shared libraries



On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 08:37:33PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2018-10-24 18:17 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 
> > Package: wnpp
> >
> > The current maintainer of xview, Blars Blarson <blarson@debian.org>,
> > is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package now.
> >
> > Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this
> > package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it.
> >
> > If you want to be the new maintainer, please see
> > https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#howto-o for detailed
> > instructions how to adopt a package properly.
> 
> FWIW, this package should be removed rather than adopted.  It is ugly
> legacy code from the 1990's that apparently does not work at all on
> 64-bit architectures anymore.  Fortunately there do not seem to be any
> reverse dependencies.

Boyuan Yang opened the RM bug: #911787

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