* bendik...@vfemail.net <bendik...@vfemail.net> [2019-09-06 09:18]: > I can not directly respont to Jose E. Marchesi, I have get no mail. > > The fact alone that it is part of Debian says ferret has its use. Although > the popularity is declining. > It is interesting to mention at ferrets website that it is used by a > university, I did not check if this is the case. > > ferret on Debian is orphaned and ferret on GNU feels orphaned too.
The notion that GNU software which is not packaged by Debian GNU/Linux shall be decomissioned is wrong. Same is with the "usage statistics" provided only by Debian. -- Thanks, Jean Louis