Bug#662114: ack: non-active upstream and there is nkf

Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org Control: retitle -1 RM: ack -- RoQA; dead upstream, no UTF-8 support, better alternatives exist Hi, since there was no maintainer response for more than a week after the last request to comment (actually no maintainer response at all since the bug report was f

Bug#662114: ack: non-active upstream and there is nkf

Dear Osamu, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hatta-san has made uploads of packages in 2013. Yes, noticed that, too. > > But ack's usage nevertheless still rises slowly, now around 240 > > installations -- which is not "nothing". Even "vote" is around 40: > > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=ac

Bug#662114: ack: non-active upstream and there is nkf

Hi, Hatta-san, please speak up how you feel. This is my 2012 bug report without your response. Hatta-san has made uploads of packages in 2013. I guess he is not interested to defend this one. (I think he is not very active these days. Lst seen Sun, 07 Jul 2013 09:06:07 on debian-hask...@lis

Bug#662114: ack: non-active upstream and there is nkf

Hi, Osamu Aoki wrote on Sun, 4 Mar 2012 07:51:02 UTC: > I think nkf is the tool of choice for the Japanese encoding converter > with good huristics capability. Otherwise, we have iconv. Let's compare their usage with popcon: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=ack%2Cnkf&show_installed