[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#570827: RM: iaxclient -- RoQA; RC buggy and unmaintained (from the pkg-voip team and upstream)

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:23:34PM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> * Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei at debian.org> [100227 11:46]:
> 
> >>> We (the pkg-voip team) decided to drop old RC buggy packages,
> >>> which are not developered anymore by upstream and/or do not have
> >>> got an active maintainer in Debian for a longer time.
> >>
> >> There is a problem with the removal:
> >>
> >> Checking reverse dependencies...
> >> # Broken Depends:
> >> iaxclient-tcl: iaxclient-tcl [alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 mips
> >> mipsel powerpc s390 sparc]
> >>
> >> # Broken Build-Depends:
> >> iaxclient-tcl: libiaxclient-dev
> >
> > Okay I have overseen this dependencie.
> > I have CCed the iaxclient-tcl packagers.
> >
> > What do you say about this removal?

If the lib is buggy, maintaining a Tcl binding or dependency is 
pointless. But does it seems to me that the problem is due
to a missing proper maintainance. At least, last upstream commit
is one month ago. Wasn't the case to remove it from testing only
and wait for a better maintainance? Are there better products?

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine