Hello, On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, at 10:42, Andreas Tille wrote: > Dear maintainer, > > I suggest removing gbdfed from Debian for the following reasons: > > * It accumulated several bugs where every single one is a symptom > of the age of the package > - #980914: "Wrong Homepage" where even suggested fixes do not work > any more > - #967372: "Depends on deprecated GTK 2" > - #1032588: patches provided but not uploaded > - #1096680: will create work in future > * I do not know the functionality details but I suspect users can use > fontforge > to approach same or similar results > * Popcon votes are extremely low
> In case the package should be kept in unstable, please let me know. If > my evaluation is wrong I'll happily work on the bugs (except #967372) > and do a Debian team upload. This bug is simply to raise your awareness > and if needed the Salvage team can lend some helping hand. Thank you, but I’ll try to keep it in Debian for as long as it is possible. -- Cheers, Andrej
