Kimchi & Ginger in Ubuntu outdated and broken - update or remove them

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Aline Fatima Manera <alinefm at br.ibm.com>
wrote:

> Otherwise, I agree it is better to remove the package than have them
> broken there.


Thank you Aline, Frederic and Ernst for all your feedback,
all we heard so far went went the same direction - so it is more an
agreeing than a discussion.
Therefore I changed the bug to officially request the packages to be
removed in artful.

Furthermore as fallback for users who come by the bug missing the package I
referred to the ppa and the upstream download page.
Frederic did so in this thread already, yet OTOH all your posts seem to
wait for moderation I guess so let me summarize here as well.
The following is a copy&paste of my last update to the bug so that people
can find things in the mail archive as well:

@~ubuntu-archive
per comments #8 #16 #25 and #29 I think we reached consensus and should
remove the following packages from the archive in Artful:
- kimchi
- ginger

Reasoning:
- broken
- outdated
- not maintained
- no further dependencies on them that would block

Looking for an archive admin that is willing to consider removing them.
Unassigning from Frederic and subscribing ~ubuntu-archive so one can pick.

FYI - For users who come here "missing" these packages (well likely missing
a working version).
The projects strategy itself seems to be self provided deb's - while I
don't like that you can get it at [1].
Furthermore there is a ppa maintained by IBM which you could use at [2].
But also please read the referred comments and links if you really want
that.

[1]: https://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/downloads/
[2]: https://launchpad.net/~ibmpackages/+archive/ubuntu/kimchi-project/


-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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