retitle 895736 RM: gnash - unmaintained, deprecated, RC-buggy, depends on
legacy libs
reassign 895736 ftp.debian.org
severity 895736 normal
thanks
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 12:43:52PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Source: gnash
> Severity: important
>
> Should Gnash be removed?
>
> - Doesn't have any active uploaders any more
> - Upstream seems mostly dead, last commits over a year ago
> - Mozilla plugin broken as of Firefox 57 (so soon also for firefox-esr)
> (Konqeror plugin seems broken for longer even according to #655839 and
> #549669
> - Incompatible with upcoming ffmpeg 4.0 (888337)
> - Blocks mtasc removal (831549)
> - Uses legacy libs (874890, 885374)
>
> Unless anyone steps forward and takes up maintenance, I'll file a removal
> bug in the next weeks.
No objections in three weeks, reassigning for removal.
Cheers,
Moritz
