Your message dated Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:22:53 +0000
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and subject line Bug#903620: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #893649,
regarding xvt: should this package be removed?
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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More than two decades ago, xvt was superseded by its fork rxvt, which in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
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.1-20.3+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package xvt has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/903620
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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