Unmaintained Repository Was: Spoke too early

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:02:21 -0400 Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> At the point where Kdvi was removed:
>> - All important features that had been reported as missing in Okular 
compared 
>> to Kdvi, had now been added to Okular.
>> - Kdvi is unmaintained.
>> - Kdvi is an KDE3 application where a KDE4 replacement exists.
>> So those three things combined was the reason for removing it.
>
>Ah so the important part here is not that it's unmaintained, but that
>it's superseded with a package that should (in theory) offer all the
>features.

Particularly in this case because it was part of the KDE3 - KDE4 
transition.  The separate kdvi package was a bad hack that really shouldn't 
be left around any longer than strictly necessary.  

If you look at the "kdvi" source package in Intrepid you'll find it's 
really kdegraphics from KDE3 renamed, so it's removal from Jaunty wasn't a 
standard removal at all.  That package's existence in Intrepid at all was a 
complete oddity that I only took on due to the legitimate complaint about 
it providing functionality that no other package in the archive provided.

Scott K