On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 05:50:58PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote:
>...
> 'freevo' is in "dormant state" since Feb 2014 [1] ; there are some
> patches around to revive it [2] and a github branch that had some
> activity [3], but in truth there was no activity in some years.
>...
> I gave it a look: fixing 'freevo' is more work than I can dedicate now.
> Moreover 'kodi' is now in Debian, so fixing 'freevo' probably
> does not make much sense.
>
> So I am opening this 'grave' bug; I am perfectly OK if someone wishes
> to fix 'freevo' ; but I would rather not see 'freevo' (as it is now) being
> part of the next major Debian release.
Would it be OK to remove the freevo packages
(freevo kaa-base kaa-imlib2 kaa-metadata)
from unstable now?
The only reverse dependency is tracked in #907663,
and I can do an NMU for that.
> Best regards,
>
> a.
>...
Thanks
Adrian
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