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Hi,
xgobi can be removed from all distributions:
a) it is still non-free (bad AT&T license)
b) development stopped years in favour of the newer ggobi replacement [1]
c) ggobi's licensing was changed from AT&T's own license to the Common
Public License which DFSG-compatible, and ggobi is now in main, as is
its main dependent Rggobi (aka r-omegahat-ggobi)
Given that replacement software is maintained upstream and in main, we do
not need the non-free legacy package anymore. I had still maintained it for
a transition to ggobi, but the time has come to purge xgobi, and the
matching xgobi-doc package. This is obviously not release-critical so do it
now or after sarge is out.
Thanks, and best regards, Dirk
[1] xgobi dates back before Gtk et al and uses the X11 libraries/widgets
only, Ggobi is a rewrite/extension using Gtk.
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