If you want it to be maintained for another full release cycle, and
think it's worth it, sure -- but it's a bit unclear to me what you mean.
Either it's removed from unstable only, and after the release, or it's
removed from sarge too. It'll stay in woody unless there's some legal
reason not to.
Especially as the replacement 'ggobi' is in sarge, I'd suggest to drop
xgobi{,-doc} from sarge. Agreed?
--Jeroen
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Subject: Bug#311108: ftp.debian.org: Please remove xgobi and xgobi-doc from all
distributions
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:19:59 -0500
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Hi,
xgobi can be removed from all distributions:
a) it is still non-free (bad AT&T license)
b) development stopped years in favour of the newer ggobi replacement [1]
c) ggobi's licensing was changed from AT&T's own license to the Common
Public License which DFSG-compatible, and ggobi is now in main, as is
its main dependent Rggobi (aka r-omegahat-ggobi)
Given that replacement software is maintained upstream and in main, we do
not need the non-free legacy package anymore. I had still maintained it for
a transition to ggobi, but the time has come to purge xgobi, and the
matching xgobi-doc package. This is obviously not release-critical so do it
now or after sarge is out.
Thanks, and best regards, Dirk
[1] xgobi dates back before Gtk et al and uses the X11 libraries/widgets
only, Ggobi is a rewrite/extension using Gtk.
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