Package: kterm Version: 6.2.0-46.2 Severity: serious Justification: QA query
Hi! I believe that kterm is no longer suitable for inclusion in Debian, and thus propose its removal. It lacks features considered basic for a terminal emulator, such as UTF-8 support; its compatibility with terminal abilities taken for granted these days is poor, and it has been dead upstream since times immemorial (predating the first Debian version in 1996). As the package is at least nominally maintained (well, no maintainer upload since 2006...), I'm not supposed to RoQA it immediately. Thus, please tell me whether it should be removed. If not, please close this bug, otherwise I'll ask for removal before Buster freeze. Meow! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-rc6-debug-00033-g80c3264499c7 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages kterm depends on: ii libc6 2.27-2 ii libtinfo5 6.1-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1 ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii ncurses-term 6.1-1 Versions of packages kterm recommends: ii locales 2.27-2 Versions of packages kterm suggests: pn xfonts-shinonome | xfonts-a12k12 <none> -- no debconf information
