Suggest to remove molphy from Debian (Was: Bug#642016: some functions return values implicitly converted to pointer)

2011-09-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I somehow feel this is the right moment to let molphy die. This non-free, non-maintained upstream piece of very old code just drained a lot of my time to fix totally broken code. While arb rdepends from molphy (actually provides its own copy with other problems) I would patch arb in a way

Re: Suggest to remove molphy from Debian (Was: Bug#642016: some functions return values implicitly converted to pointer)

2011-09-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:05:32AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : I somehow feel this is the right moment to let molphy die. This non-free, non-maintained upstream piece of very old code just drained a lot of my time to fix totally broken code. While arb rdepends from molphy (actually

Re: Suggest to remove molphy from Debian (Was: Bug#642016: some functions return values implicitly converted to pointer)

2011-09-18 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
not that I care, nor I would like to keep you guys busy... but indeed announcing the intent somehow so it could reach users would be nice, since according to popcon there are some people who at least have it installed http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=molphy it is in decline but at 40 ATM,

Re: Suggest to remove molphy from Debian (Was: Bug#642016: some functions return values implicitly converted to pointer)

2011-09-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:43:13AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I support your choice. I think that it would be nice to mention it on Twitter and the debian-med blog so that users can tell us if they really needed molphy. I (or any other volunteer) can also make a small news entry on our