[pkg-xmule] Bug#370524: About the future of the xmule package

[Adeodato Simó]

Hi guys, any comment with respect to this?

* Adeodato Simó [Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:01:35 +0200]:

> Package: xmule

> Hello.

> I want get rid of dpkg-divert usage in the amule package, and replace it
> with update-alternatives. For this, I planned to send a patch for xmule
> implementing the change, but when I had a look at the xmule package, I
> noticed that is in a very sorry state: several RC bugs open for more
> than a year, various releases behind upstream, ...

> So I would like to know if either of you still has any interest in the
> xmule package, and would fix the existing bugs, and perhaps update to a
> new version, at the same time that applying my patch, or if not, if
> you're okay with requesting removal from the archive. I need this as
> opposed to letting the package rot because Policy prevents me from
> making amule Conflict: xmule if it exists in the archive (and I can't
> leave things as are now, because I want dpkg-divert to go away).

> Thanks,

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