Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm
Dear ftp-masters, dear users of PIDA, the last release of PIDA upstream was in late 2010. I never got around to packaging that, because PIDA 0.6 introduced a number of new and (at the time) tricky to package dependencies. Since then upstream development came to a complete halt, the domain was taken over by a private blog, one of the original core maintainers started a successor IDE, its development stalled and even its domain has now been taken over by a domain squatter. (Oh, and the git server where my packaging resided vanished from the face of the earth. But I'm gonna safe that somewhere.) I myself have not felt the need to use PIDA in a long time. The concept of embedding a classical text editor via X embedding was never that robust, especially when trying to support both vim and emacs at the same time, and the IDE just didn't bring enough debugging power etc. to the table to make up for that. It just doesn't make sense to commit ressources to supporting PIDA for yet another debian release. In all honesty, I should have sent this removal request before the release of jessie. I apologize to the 39 remaining people who (according to PopCon) still have PIDA installed and might still be using it. Keep coding ! With kind regards, Philipp PS: For posterity: the last (to my knowledge) released tarball of PIDA was http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pida/pida-0.6.2.tar.gz#md5=6ee61497996abd54f8a9dacd39b90c8c and the (possibly abandoned) successor project by the last remaining upstream author was https://github.com/aliafshar/a8 .