Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org Control: retitle -1 RM: ack -- RoQA; dead upstream, no UTF-8 support, better alternatives exist
Hi, since there was no maintainer response for more than a week after the last request to comment (actually no maintainer response at all since the bug report was filed in March 2012), I'm herewith changing this bug report into a removal request as suggested by the original reporter. Main points of the discussion: Osamu Aoki wrote in March 2012: > I think nkf is the tool of choice for the Japanese encoding > converter with good huristics capability. Otherwise, we have iconv. > > This upstream changelog is from 1994. And Debian package has not > changed from oldstable. manpage is less than adquate. tool does not > handle UTF-8. > > there is no dependency problem for removal. I wrote: > One thing where a removal of ack would help a lot would be with the > ack-grep package (of which I'm one of the maintainers): > > We had to rename the included binary as well as the package from > upstream's name "ack" to "ack-grep" since a package and binary named > "ack" already existed. […] > ack-grep has way more installations and usage than ack: > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=ack%2Cack-grep&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 I wrote 11 days ago: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hatta-san has made uploads of packages in 2013. > > Yes, noticed that, too. > > > > But ack's usage nevertheless still rises slowly, now around 240 > > > installations -- which is not "nothing". Even "vote" is around 40: > > > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=ack > > > > Well ... absolute numbers maybe going up but numbers in %, its not > > showing much rises. > > Good point. I forgot to count in the permanent rise of popcon > submitters. > > > Unless he speaks up in a week or so, Axel, please forward this to FTP > > master for removal. > > Will do. Done herewith. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
