Package: xvt Version: 2.1-20.3 Severity: serious Justification: QA query Hi! I believe that xvt is no longer suitable for inclusion in Debian, and thus propose its removal. Not only has it been dead upstream since times immemorial but also it lacks features so basic it's mind-boggling.
For example, I believed that Windows 3.11's TELNET.EXE was the last terminal in existence that lacked color support. Turns out, here we ship xvt, in 2018. Or, no UTF-8 support is probably worth a RC bug on its own. More than two decades ago, xvt was superseded by its fork rxvt, which in turn spawned a multitude of forks on its own. I for one remember using a bunch of them on IRIX, when the world was still young... Those forks have then died out around the beginning of this millenium, of them only rxvt-unicode is still struggling along. As this package is still nominally maintained (well, your last upload was in 2006...), I can't file a RoQA 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 xvt depends on: ii libc6 2.27-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1 xvt recommends no packages. Versions of packages xvt suggests: pn menu <none> -- no debconf information
