Demoting isdnutils

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Wed Mar 18 12:42:23 GMT 2009


Martin Pitt schrieb:
> Hello all,
> 
> Matthias and I pondered demoting isdnutils to universe. It doesn't
> have a real maintainer in Debian [1] any more, doesn't get a lot of
> attention in Ubuntu (except for packaging fixes) and ISDN has become
> more and more obsolete even in Germany.

Still having an ISDN phone connection ... the kernels after hardy don't support
the AVM drivers anymore, so the capi packages can be demoted. Other packages are
still useful for older passive ISDN hardware. I didn't check recent ISDN kernel
developments.

> It also keeps cruft like tcl8.3 in main.
> 
> Does anyone feel attached to this package and could e. g. test if it
> still works, and whether it works with Tcl 8.5? If nobody is
> interested in it, then we should perhaps demote it to universe?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
> 
> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/isdnutils.html
> 




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