Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal User: ftp.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: remove X-Debbugs-Cc: lib...@packages.debian.org, g...@packages.debian.org, till.kamppe...@gmail.com, debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de Control: affects -1 + src:libppd
Greetings,
As previously announced in #1052056 ("Intent To Remove: src:libppd"),
I'm asking you to remove the libppd package from Debian unstable.
The ressons boil down to:
First, upstream is dead, last release was in 2002-ish (by looking at
the latest timestamp in the orig.tar).
Second, some binary package names collide with a different libppd
implementation provided by CUPS. Several months ago I made an attempt to
resolve this by renaming the package here, but I gave up on this -
besides some obstacles I've changed my mind and doubt all this was worth
the efforts. (An RM for that libppd-legacy package will follow shortly.)
There is one reverse dependency outstide src:libppd, it's the gpr
package. It's likewise upstream-dead and dropped out of testing
recently for other reasons, and I doubt it's going to come back. The
maintainer was included in the Intent To Remove above, no reaction.
Christoph (maintainer of src:libppd)
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