[ubuntu-uk] nvu

[Dean Sas]

Tony Arnold wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> Alan Pope wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0100, baz wrote:
>>> According to their faq Nvu is still active:
>>> http://www.nvu.com/faq.php#active
>>>
>> Not really. Depends how you read it I guess. 
>>
>> He is not developing nvu any more, but has started a whole new editor as I 
>> understand it. Which will be the "next generation HTML editor" as he puts 
>> it.
> 
> I still don't really understand why it has been dropped from the
> repositories for Feisty. Any idea where I can find out how and when the
> decision was taken?
> 

It was dropped in debian because the maintainer asked for it to be as it 
was "Umaintained by upstream." The drop then presumably filtered down to 
Ubuntu. See http://bugs.debian.org/393065.

Dean