Package: rcalc
Version: 0.5.0-1.3
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS, no upstream release since 2005, many alternatives

I observe that rcalc seems to have some problems:

* last 3 uploads were NMUs
* fails to build from source (missing dependency on libglade2, but when that's
  fixed, the GNOME applet seems to be missing the CFLAGS for libgnomeui)
* last upstream release was in 2005
* uses some deprecated GNOME libraries (e.g. libgnomeui)
* alternatives include genius, qalulate, extcalc, galculator, Python, ...

Is it still useful to have in Debian?

Regards,
    Simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rcalc depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.28.0-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.20-2       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.28.0-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.24.2-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.24.2-1       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.10.1-1       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.8.8-2        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1            2.6.0-4        generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4               2.28.0-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.6.4-1      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.22.2-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.28.0-1       The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.26.0-1       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.24.2-1       The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            1:2.24.2-1     GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.18.3-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.14.17-1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0        2.28.0-1       library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.26.0-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.15-1         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libreadline5              5.2-6          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6                    2:1.1.1-1      X11 Session Management library
ii  libvte9                   1:0.22.2-2     Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libxft2                   2.1.13-3       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxml2                   2.7.6.dfsg-1   GNOME XML library

rcalc recommends no packages.

rcalc suggests no packages.

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