What should we do with libkate?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Ralph Giles]
> It's widely installed because it's a dependency of several common
> media playback stacks, but files which actually exercise the code
> aren't common, so the actual implications for dropping support aren't
> as serious as popularity contest suggests.

Sure.  I mostly mentioned it because any security issues would have a
wide impact.  If we drop the package and then a security issue come
along, a lot of people using older Debian version will be affected.

> Otherwise, I don't have much of an opinion. If it's not being
> maintained dropping it from debian makes sense. If someone does still
> depend on it, that may inspire them to take on maintainership. If not,
> then there's one less piece of unmaintained software.

As far as I know there is nothing wrong with it, but the upstream site
is gone and there seem to be no-one maintaining it.  So the free
software community have no focal point to share patches and issues,
which is worrysome to me.  Not a big worry, but definitely something to
keep in mind.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen