Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -1 RM: chipw -- RoQA; dead upstream; unmaintained; low popcon;
RC-buggy
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 08:46:24AM +1200, Olly Betts wrote:
> I think it's time to remove the chipw package:
>
> * chipw been dead upstream for many years (last release 2011)
> * chipw has very low popcon - inst:24 vote:1
> * the tworld package includes an alternative editor for this format
> * chipw has no reverse dependencies (according to dak rm)
> * chipw has only been uploaded once by the maintainer, over 9 years ago
> * I've had to NMU chipw for every wxWidgets transition since, and it's
> now a blocker for the current wxwidgets3.0-gtk3 transition. I seem
> to have become the de-facto maintainer, and if I was the actual
> maintainer I would be filing an RM bug.
The wxWidgets transition bugs are now RC, so in addition the package is
RC-buggy and marked for AUTORM from testing on 2019-10-19.
> If there are no objections within two weeks, I'll turn this into an RM
> bug.
I've had no response at all so going ahead.
Cheers,
Olly
