Hi, On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:39:19PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > tags moreinfo > thanks > > Hi Uwe > > Can you confirm that the package is obsolete and should be removed?
Not sure. I still find it pretty useful as it's a small command line tool and can check sourcecode without having to actually compile it (or install a huge compiler - pscan is 18 KB big). Also, it does static checking, so it works pretty much in all cases, whereas the gcc solution probably requires that you are actually able to build the package you want to check (and have lots of dependencies and build tools installed etc). Either way, I'd like to hear the opinion of the former package maintainer, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, before a decision. > Cheers > > Luk > > Jari Aalto wrote: > > Package: ftp.debian.org > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Asking for removal of an obsolete package. > > > > The code was last updated 2000. The debian/copyright upstream URL does > > not exist[1] any more. After tracking down and contacting the > > upstream author about the current sources: > > > > Alan T DeKok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-12-04 > > It hasn't been maintained for years. The current gcc includes > > -Wformat-nonliteral, which appears to do everything that pscan did. > > -- Alan DeKok. > > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454404 > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: lenny/sid > > APT prefers unstable > > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > > (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > > > > > Thanks, Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
