Hi Simon,
Bernhard Link has been organizing a group of folks to take over
maintaining this package.
Also, I should mention it is not primarily a library -- the main use case
for singular is a command-line repl for doing mathematical calculations;
the library version is only used by the sagemath software (not currently
in Debian).
So I'd recommend against removing the package at this time.
-Tim Abbott
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Package: singular
> Version: 3-0-4-3.dfsg-3
> Severity: serious
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: proposed-removal
>
> singular seems like a possible candidate for removal from Debian:
>
> * library with no reverse dependencies
> * no maintainer upload since 2009
> * no maintainer response to an RC bug for several months
> * assorted linking problems (see the patches from Mònica's attempted NMU)
>
> If you don't think this package is needed any more, please send the
> following commands to [email protected], replacing nnnnnn with this
> bug's number:
>
> severity nnnnnn normal
> reassign nnnnnn ftp.debian.org
> retitle nnnnnn RM: <packagename> -- RoM; <reasons>
> thanks
>
> Alternatively, please keep up with fixing it.
>
> For more information, see
> http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt
>
> Regards,
> smcv
>
>
>
