On Saturday 19 April 2008 14:46, Michael Meskes wrote: > >From what I read sylpheed-claws has been superseeded by claws-mail. In > > fact the description of the latter says: > > Claws Mail is a powerful and full-featured mail client formerly called > Sylpheed-Claws. > > So is there a need to keep the old one around? It is orphaned, has 32 > open bugs and offers software that is no longer supported by upstream. > The last meaningful maintainer upload was in 2006. > > On top of this sylpheed-claws is the only package needing cryptplug and > gpgme, two packages with no upstream activity since 2003 both of which > have a release goal bug open.
FWIW, sylpheed-claws was removed from Ubuntu before the last release for exactly these reasons. AFAIK, there were no user complaints. It really should have been removed shortly after sylpheed-claws-gtk2 was introduced. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
