On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 11:14 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:48 PM, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is it even worth it? It's buggy, has a popcon of 12, and hasn't seen an > > > upstream update since 2001?? My vote would be for removal. > > > > I agree, and I haven't seen any interest in picking it up. > > > > Would anyone object to me filing a removal request? > > I consider it to be a shame that Debian doesn't have the resources to > prevent the Debian OS from losing functionality.
Yes, it is a shame. However, there are also cases in which keeping a package around actually creates more work for people that could be spent elsewhere. I'm sure we can find a good balance. > > In this particular case, have the stakeholders been contacted? I'm > thinking of the dag2html/geneweb upstream (and any Debian users they > know of), the Debian maintainer of geneweb (and any Debian users they > know of). http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/dag2html/ That's the upstream URL in the copyright file. There hasn't been a release since the one that is in the archives, and that is timestamped 03/01. I can contact them if you would like. For the geneweb part I am Ccing Christian. Christian, do you know of anybody that would be interested in the dag2html package? Would it be worth contacting your upstream? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]