Bug#662114: ack: non-active upstream and there is nkf

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

Hatta-san, please speak up how you feel.  

This is my 2012 bug report without your response.

Hatta-san has made uploads of packages in 2013.  I guess he is not
interested to defend this one.  (I think he is not very active these
days.  Lst seen Sun, 07 Jul 2013 09:06:07 on debian-haskell at lists.debian.org)

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 01:12:33AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote on Sun, 4 Mar 2012 07:51:02 UTC:
> > I think nkf is the tool of choice for the Japanese encoding converter
> > with good huristics capability.  Otherwise, we have iconv.
> But ack's usage nevertheless still rises slowly, now around 240
> installations -- which is not "nothing". Even "vote" is around 40:
> http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=ack

Well ... absolute numbers maybe going up but numbers in %, its not
showing much rises.

...

> One thing where a removal of ack would help a lot would be with the
> ack-grep package (of which I'm one of the maintainers):

Well that is practical benefits for many.

Unless he speaks up in a week or so, Axel, please forward this to FTP
master for removal.  Technically no reason for this package to stay.

Regards,

Osamu