[Bug 94274] Re: please remove kdar (source and binary) from the archive.

[manu]

amedee wrote:
> I can't help feeling guilty. Because I reported a bug in kdar, I
> contributed in the _removal_ of a very nice piece of software that was
> once the work of one or more passionate developers. Sometimes I wish I
> hadn't added my comments to the bug report and just shut up my big
> mouth... :-(

The reality is that KDar is unmaintained. That is the real problem. If 
you could do something to fix it, great! Otherwise, let it broken and 
uninstallable was of no help to anyone and I think it would be even more 
annoying (why ship a package that is broken and unmaintained?).

Someone said that KDar could be kept around for a while as long as 
someone volunteered to package and maintain libdar3c2a. First, that 
person is nowhere to be seen. Second, upstream DAR is not maintaining 
that library anymore, so any security issues would need to be tracked 
and fixed by the packager.

I am sure Ubuntu would love to support as much software as possible but 
their time/resources are limited, so it is better to focus on software 
that is maintained upstream or that has a very dedicated packager 
behind. I was myself a heavy user of KDar. Unfortunately, I don't have 
the money to convince the developer of KDar to release a new version and 
I don't have the available time to try to do it myself. If you really 
love KDar and you think that there are more users like you, then build a 
community around it and try to boost its development (or a least make it 
build with a recent version of DAR). As long as there are people 
*really* interested, nothing can stop them from do it. That is the 
beauty of free software.

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please remove kdar (source and binary) from the archive.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94274
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