X-Debbugs-CC: s...@debian.org On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:36:31 +0100 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > Package: xvt > Version: 2.1-20.3 > Severity: serious > Justification: QA query > > Hi! > I believe that xvt is no longer suitable for inclusion in Debian, and thus > propose its removal. Not only has it been dead upstream since times > immemorial but also it lacks features so basic it's mind-boggling. > > For example, I believed that Windows 3.11's TELNET.EXE was the last terminal > in existence that lacked color support. Turns out, here we ship xvt, in > 2018. Or, no UTF-8 support is probably worth a RC bug on its own. > > More than two decades ago, xvt was superseded by its fork rxvt, which in > turn spawned a multitude of forks on its own. I for one remember using a > bunch of them on IRIX, when the world was still young... Those forks have > then died out around the beginning of this millenium, of them only > rxvt-unicode is still struggling along. > > As this package is still nominally maintained (well, your last upload was in > 2006...), I can't file a RoQA immediately. Thus, please tell me whether it > should be removed. If not, please close this bug, otherwise I'll ask for > removal before Buster freeze.
Hi Sam, I noticed that the maintainer field still points to your old email (non @debian.org one). I'm forwarding this mail to your @debian.org mail address again to eusure mail delivery. I personally second the idea of requesting package removal for xvt. If you agree with that, it would be better for us to do it earlier than later. -- Regards, Boyuan Yang
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