[DRE-maint] Bug#796020: ruby-hpricot: Obsolete

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

Package: ruby-hpricot
Version: 0.8.6-5
Severity: serious
Justification: obsolete

ruby-hpricot is obsolete.

Upstream has this to say:

> # Hpricot is over.
> 
> After years of lack of a proper maintainer for one of why's jewels, it has been
> decided to finally close the book on hpricot. Most users have migrated to alternatives
> and there is simply no time or energy to continue with the current codebase.
> 
> If you feel that you have the time and wish to take it over, I suggest you instead
> think about making the hpricot-like API within nokogiri 100% compatible, that is a better
> use of your time.
> 
> But if you still feel like "No damnit, I wanna work on hpricot itself still!" then fork
> this repo and start work. Send @evanphx or @nicksieger a message if you feel like you
> want to take over the gem name with new releases under the hpricot name.
> 
> Thanks to \_why for all the fun. We'll never forget it.

If your package depends on ruby-hpricot, please move away from it
immediately.

We're not going to have ruby-hpricot in stretch.

Christian

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