[Bug 2048420] [NEW] [RM] vbaexpress: ancient, Ubuntu-specific, unmaintained, blocks removal of fltk1.1

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Debian has dropped fltk1.1.  It should also be dropped from noble, but
has vbaexpress as a reverse-dependency.

vbaexpress is currently at version 1.2-0ubuntu7.  1.2-0ubuntu1 was:

vbaexpress (1.2-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low

  * Initial release
  * 01_MakefileFlags.dpatch: Use flags to build without FLU
  * 02_desktop.dpatch: Update .desktop file with Free Desktop standards

 -- Gauvain Pocentek <gauvainpocentek at yahoo.fr>  Mon, 30 Jan 2006
18:06:50 +0100

There is a new 1.3 release upstream at
https://www.asher256.com/projects/vbaexpress/english.php !  And
astonishingly it seems to be from April 2023 based on timestamps in the
tarball.  But no one has bothered packaging it.

Launching the vbaexpress program here on mantic, I get a dialog that
asks:

  The file:
  /home/vorlon/VisualBoyAdvance.cfg
  is not exist. Do you want to create it?

- NO I don't want you to create a .cfg file in my home directory, what's wrong with you?
- this is not proper English
- no one has complained about this dialog since 2006
- so I conclude no one actually uses this package.

This package is a wrapper around vba.  Installing that package, and
downloading a random .gba rom found on the Internet
(https://www.emulatorgames.net/download/?rom=pokemon-emerald-version),
and running vba with that file as an argument, I get a window that's all
white.  So this program also doesn't work out of the box for me,
therefore I don't see any value in a frontend for it.

I think this package should be removed.

** Affects: vbaexpress (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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[RM] vbaexpress: ancient, Ubuntu-specific, unmaintained, blocks removal of fltk1.1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2048420
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