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

[Barry deFreese]

On 9/20/2014 12:54 AM, Olly Betts wrote:
> 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
> 

Unfortunately I am pretty inactive these days but I would say go ahead and remove them.

Thanks,

Barry

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Barry deFreese
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