Hi! On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:32:40PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Source: beast > Version: 0.7.1-5 > Severity: serious > Justification: RC bugs, no maintainer upload since 2008, low popcon > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: proposed-removal > > beast seems like a possible candidate for removal from Debian: > > * low popcon (36 votes) > * no upstream releases since 2006 (although there seemed to be some activity > on Sourceforge in 2009) > * RC-buggy, several recent FTBFSs > * no maintainer upload since 2008
I can comment on two of these reasons, since I work on upstream beast: we are working towards a new release which includes new instruments and new features. We also try to incorporate changes which make beast build in environments with new tools (such as g++-4.4) from linux distributions like Debian and Ubuntu, so some reasons for FTBFS should be gone with the new beast-0.7.2 which we're planning to release soon. I'm Debian/unstable and Debian/stable user myself, and git HEAD beast builds fine on both. Cu... Stefan -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
