Bug#759061: tpclient-pywx: Please update to use wxpython3.0

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 23:01:36 -0300 Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> > I've just been having a look at getting tpclient-pywx working with
> > wxPython 3.0, and it looks non-trivial.  The first major issue I hit is
> > that the start-up all happens in the wrong order (probably also wrong
> > with 2.8, but 3.0 actually checks and complains).
> > 
> > However, looking at the PTS, I thought I should check if you think
> > it is worth trying to keep this package in the archive:
> > 
> > * Popcon shows *0* active users (out of 18 installs, 2 of which are
> >   new - one of those probably me!)
> > 
> > * last maintainer upload was approaching 5 years ago
> > 
> > * last upstream release date I couldn't easily discover, but it was
> >   prior to the Debian package first being upload on 2009-03-09
> 
> Indeed I think the client and the libraries for Thousand Parsec are good
> removal candidates:
> 
> According to http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp
> 
> * Upstream forum is down
> * Last posts on the mailing lists date back to 2010
> * No servers and players active
> 
> If tpclient-pywx is removed from Debian, then there is no reason to keep
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/src:libtpclient-py
> 
> and
> 
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/libt/libtpproto-py.html
> 
> either.

Barry deFreese is the only person listed in "Uploaders:" for these 3
packages - what are your thoughts on removing them, Barry?

Cheers,
    Olly