Re: orphaned open-cobol package should be replaced with new gnucobol package

2017-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 11:24 PM, Simon Sobisch wrote: > I'd like to know if there's something the GnuCOBOL project can do to > allow the orphaned open-cobol package to be replaced with a new gnucobol > package and provide updates for it. I would suggest starting with the existing open-cobol pack

orphaned open-cobol package should be replaced with new gnucobol package

2017-11-26 Thread Simon Sobisch
The last mention of the open-cobol package I've found was on https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00071.html where it was mentioned as being orphaned. The open-cobol package includes OpenCOBOL 1.1 from February 2009. OpenCOBOL was renamed to GnuCOBOL when accepted as GNU project. The