Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm orphaning the XView package, containing the XView UI toolkit libraries plus a few applications using them (most notably olwm/olvwm). I haven't used it for a long time and I guess it's finally time to let it die in peace. However, for some strange reason, some parts of XView (e.g. olwm and olvwm) are still quite popular and the XView libraries still seem to be used for a few scientific applications.
If you're brave enough to adopt that package, please take into account that there is no upstream (there hasn't been one for years), so all bugfixes will be your responsibility. Please also take into account that most of the code was written in the early 90's and as such is quite ugly by today's standards (e.g. not at all 64 bit clean and nearly impossible to fix). Reverse dependencies from other source packages are: treetool arb xvmount xjove workman imaze-xview circlepack Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
