Demoting isdnutils

[Tim Gardner]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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.
> 

The kernel has not changed with respect to ISDN since we dropped support
after Hardy.

>> 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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