Bug#913765: RM: leafpad -- GTK+ based simple text editor
Control: reassign -1 release.debian.org
Control: retitle -1 RM: leafpad -- GTK+ based simple text editor
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:31:56 +0100 Andrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:44:08 +0100 krystal <sfkrystal@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This needs love or it will die. Needs to be updated to use gtk3, has at
> > least one bug that may cause data loss without warning. Is anyone going
> > to take this on, or is there a better simple text editor that we should
> > all move to and let this one go?
>
> I would say gedit seems to be much a better choice. I’m not sure it
> makes sense to keep this bare-bones simple but outdated editor, when
> gedit is also quite simplistic, but has additional features and is
> maintained upstream.
Five months after the initial orphaning request, nothing has happened to
suggest a drastic change in the package’s future.
It’s the time for leafpad to go, I suppose.
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Cheers,
Andrej
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