Bug#818561: Useless in Debian

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:34:43 +0200 Ilias Tsitsimpis <i.tsitsimpis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Sorry for the late reply.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 02:11PM, David Prévot wrote:
> > Le 31/10/2016 à 13:25, Axel Beckert a écrit :
> > > JFTR: The recent hoogle update pulled this in. So it seems no more
> > > useless but now even has reverse dependencies again. :-)
> > 
> > Thank you Axel for the heads up. I guess someone (maybe from the
> > hoogle team) will want to take over the maintenance. Feel free to remove
> > me from Uploaders when you do.
> 
> Indeed, hoogle now depends on libjs-chosen (since upstream ships an
> embedded copy of it). I failed to notice the above RC bug, or else I
> would have discussed this earlier.
> 
> The hoogle package is maintained by the Debian Haskell Group. I don't
> think libjs-chosen would be a good fit for the Team. Please consider
> closing the above bug report (so that hoogle can migrate to testing)
> and orphan the package.

Yes, if you don't want to maintain this, please orphan the package. It'd be good
to have it maintained by pkg-javascript though.

Cheers,
Emilio