Bug#983068: RM: xscorch -- RoQA; dead upstream; unmaintained; depeds on removed readline-gplv2 and others

2021-02-18 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
Hi all, I am both the Debian maintainer and part of "upstream" ... I have discussed this with the co-author of the xscorch project and we do not have any time or intent to do another GTK upgrade right now. The GTK2 update was effectively a large part of what killed the project in the first

Bug#983068: RM: xscorch -- RoQA; dead upstream; unmaintained; depeds on removed readline-gplv2 and others

2021-02-18 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Dear FTP Masters, please remove xscorch. Upstream has vanished, and Debian ships this as a native package - upstream also hasn't touched "our" package in many years. It also build-depends on the recently removed GPLv2 readline, as well as GTKv2, and