Bug#1101173: Removal notice: obsolete

[Diederik de Haas]

On Mon Mar 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM CET, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
> Source: haskell-tldr
>
> I intend to remove this package:
>
>   * Seems unmaintained; Last upload ~4 years ago
>   * Debian provides tldr-py, a Python client for tldr
>   * Will probably stop working at end of year (see [1]).
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2025/03/msg00000.html

FTR: The situation wrt tldr-py isn't much better:

Its upstream (https://github.com/lord63/tldr.py) last commit is from 5
years ago, the latest tag is v0.7.0 while there is a 0.8.0 version on
https://pypi.org/project/tldr.py/ and also according to one of the
most 'recent' commits ... just forgot the tag I suppose?

There's https://github.com/lord63/tldr.py/pull/50 ("fix: change master
branch to main branch") and https://github.com/lord63/tldr.py/issues/49
("upstream tldr mindlessly changed master to main"), both still open,
which seem to indicate it's currently broken?
(And no activity by the maintainer for years it seems by a quick scan)

I installed the ``tldr-py`` package and tried to run it:
- It apparently wants a config file in ``~/.tldrrc`` (not ideal IMO)
- Upon running ``tldr init`` it asks "Input the tldr repo path(absolute
  path):". I had no idea what it should be, so I tried an URL I found at
  https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client and when researching
  a bit further, that seems to be an entirely different project...
  Apparently you're supposed to provide the location to your local clone
  of this git repo: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.git
  I can clone a git repo, but this doesn't look user friendly.
  And I guess you run into the above mentioned issue/PR which you need
  to apply to make it work?

This doesn't invalidate your point about the haskell client, but I don't
consider the ``tldr-py`` package a suitable replacement.
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