Dear all,
I was the uploader of the `sip` and `PyQt4` packages. This was long ago and 
right now I cannot take the effort of upgrading them. As far as I know, 
they haven't been used for any other thing that experimentation...

El miércoles, 27 de abril de 2016, 16:05:28 (UTC+2), Dima Pasechnik 
escribió:
>
> On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 1:53:27 PM UTC+1, tdumont wrote:
>>
>> Le 27/04/2016 12:34, mmarco a écrit : 
>> > Several of the maintainers answered me telling that it is OK to remove 
>> > those packages. The rest of them either couldn't be contacted or did 
>> not 
>> > answer at all. So it is safe to delete the packages. 
>> > 
>> > El miércoles, 20 de abril de 2016, 11:19:29 (UTC+2), mmarco escribió: 
>> > 
>> >     In theory, each od these packages should have a mantainer. I think 
>> >     we should, at least, consult them before removing the packages. 
>> > 
>> >     If a package has no mantainer at all... that is already a good 
>> >     reason to remove it from the list of optional packages. 
>> > 
>> >     El miércoles, 20 de abril de 2016, 9:24:01 (UTC+2), Volker Braun 
>> >     escribió: 
>> > 
>> >         Since we once again had a thread about the pains of 
>> accidentally 
>> >         installing an old-style optional package, I propose to delete 
>> >         them except the following instead of opening a trac ticket for 
>> >         each one once something bad happened. If there is anything else 
>> >         you want to hit reply... 
>> > 
>> >         See the list here: http://files.sagemath.org/spkg/optional/ 
>> >         <http://files.sagemath.org/spkg/optional/ 
>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ffiles.sagemath.org%2Fspkg%2Foptional%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHsZtHXAYC23c4gNIfNPEulpXpJQw>>
>>  
>>
>> > 
>> >         To keep: 
>> > 
>> >         - chomp 
>> >         - java3d 
>> >         - phc 
>> >         - qhull 
>> >         - kash3 
>> > 
>>
>> Mhhh, I have colleagues who use "lie". 
>>
>
> Lie is a new style package. See 
> http://files.sagemath.org/spkg/upstream/lie/index.html
> What will be removed is just an old spkg file...
>
>
>
>> An other package: coxeter. It was written by a colleague and friend of 
>> mine, Fokko Ducloux, who passed away now 10  years ago. If I remember 
>> well, people from the Sage-Combinat group wanted to work on it. What is 
>> the situation ? 
>>
>> yours 
>> t. 
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