On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 22:26 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > Even upstream has given up on qtdmm to make the transition to current > Qt/KDE standards and develops QtDMM 2, which is not packaged for Debian. > Now Debian will not continue the maintenance of the older libraries > and Ana today sent #604578, suggesting to initiate the removal of > anything depending on those older libraries. The package has a rather > surprisingly high user base >200 on popcon and needs little maintenance. > It is sad to see it go, but if it shall be, so be it. For the fragile > Linux community of electroengineers it would be neat to directly offer > QtDMM2 as a substitute. But I am too busy to address that.
In that case, should the package not be removed from the archive entirely - i.e. from unstable - rather than just from testing? It doesn't seem particularly productive to remove it from testing just to have it languish unmaintained and unusable in unstable. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
