Long orphaned packages, removal suggestions

[Frank Lichtenheld]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:24:28AM +0200, Riccardo Stagni wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:55:57PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > This time I've gone trough the list of long orphaned packages.
> > These are packages unlikely to ever get a new maintainer, at least
> > they didn't manage to do so in the last two to three years.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > fv              orphaned 3 years, popcon 189/20/156/13/0,
> > 		rdeps: science-astronomy
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm involved in astronomy and I planned to make some work on those
> "monsters" that are fv and saods9. Some time ago I gave a look to the
> sources: they are both a big mess, but I admit it was a very quick attempt
> (I was very busy in the last months).

Yeah, the WNPP bug of fv already includes some more comments to that
effect.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig at debian.org>
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