Obsolete packages request for removal

Scott Ritchie scottritchie at ubuntu.com
Thu Jun 26 07:00:53 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Michael Webster
<miketwebster at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are currently two unofficial PPAs for Ubuntu users to get up-to-date
> versions of this software, but at one point in time there was a maintainer
> for these packages on Debian, and so they made their way into Ubuntu
> eventually.  For whatever reasons, that maintainer abandoned the project,
> but unfortunately these very old, obsolete, and unsupported packages are
> still available in Ubuntu.
>

Another option is that we can just jump ahead of Debian and include
the newer PPA-origin packages in Ubuntu.



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