clone 432325 -1
retitle -1 RM: gnotepad+-help -- RoM; Buggy, Gnome 1 only, no upstream
thanks
* Lionel Elie Mamane [Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:22:58 +0200]:
> Package: ftp.debian.org
> As maintainer of gnotepad+ (and gnotepad+-help) it is my opinion
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm cloning this bug because TTBOMK removals need a bug per source
package.
> they are past the end of their useful life and should be removed from
> Debian.
> 1) It has some annoying bugs nobody intends to fix (78247, 97764)
> 2) I severely doubt anybody is using it anymore (it never achieved
> status of good general editor, its main advantage to my eyes was
> fast start-up for throw-away notes (e.g. during a telephone call),
> but machines are faster now... so heavy editors work for that as
> well now... and).
> 3) No upstream for more than six years.
> 4) Gnome 1 only, something we want to get rid of in the long run.
> 5) leafpad looks like a GNOME2-era brainchild.
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Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org
Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
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