[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1115939: libgdchart-gd2: is this package worth keeping ?

[Alexandre Detiste]

Source: libgdchart-gd2
Version: 0.11.5-12.2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi Jonas,

I'm continuing tryaging the CDBS dependencies.

I noticed that 'emboss' required libgdchart-gd2-xpm-dev
to build but somehow the end result was not linked
with libgdchart-gd2-xpm.








$ reverse-depends -b src:libgdchart-gd2




After a lot of digging, I, it was there since the very start or Vcs history.


https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/emboss/-/commit/ecabe0e04cde6b1696f48b34bdccfeffa62f8e6e

Now from seeing the homepage and popcon statistics,
this looks like a time capsule; 
it looks pretty but I guess people would use MatPlotLib nowadays.



What are your thoughts ?

Greetings

Alexandre
http://users.fred.net/brv//chart/
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libgdchart-gd2


since

Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* emboss                        (for libgdchart-gd2-xpm-dev)

$ reverse-depends src:libgdchart-gd2
$








I stumbled on "emboss" ->