Bug#476707: Requesting removal of aterm from Debian?

Hi Christian, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Axel Beckert [in 2014]: > > Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:54:02PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > [..] > > > So to my understanding, you would like the rxvt-unicode source package > > > to provide a

Bug#476707: Requesting removal of aterm from Debian?

Axel, * Axel Beckert [in 2014]: > Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:54:02PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: [..] > > So to my understanding, you would like the rxvt-unicode source package > > to provide a transitional aterm binary package which depends on > >

Bug#476707: Requesting removal of aterm from Debian?

Hi, On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:54:02PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: So if we decide to remove aterm from Debian, I suggest to create a transitional package containing a symlink /usr/bin/aterm to urxvt and a dependency on rxvt-unicode, likely being built from the rxvt-unicode source package.

Bug#476707: Requesting removal of aterm from Debian?

Hi Ryan, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:54:02PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: So if we decide to remove aterm from Debian, I suggest to create a transitional package containing a symlink /usr/bin/aterm to urxvt and a dependency on rxvt-unicode, likely being built from the

Bug#476707: Requesting removal of aterm from Debian?

Hi, Guylhem wrote: I was very busy and could not find time for aterm. Happens. Are you still interested in aterm? If you believe there is a strong enough demand for aterm, I can try to maintain it. I'm not sure there's a strong _demand_. I only see that there are (now) about 900

Bug#476707: Requesting removal of aterm from Debian?

Hi, I suggest to remove aterm from Debian: * Orphaned since 2008 * No more upstream-development (Upstream writes[1]: aterm is deprecated and in a maintenance mode only; there will be no further updates.) * No UTF-8 or Unicode support * Upstream recommends[1] to use rxvt-unicode instead

Bug#476707: Requesting removal of aterm from Debian?

Hello I was very busy and could not find time for aterm. If you believe there is a strong enough demand for aterm, I can try to maintain it. It has been some time since I wanted to get involved in debian. Guylhem On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: Hi, I