# To subscribers of the xforms list from Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> :
I haven't had any replies about this, so I assume it's safe and
good to remove XForms 0.86 from Debian. This is a last call.
Thanks,
Peter
Last friday, I wrote:
> XForms 0.86 is still an alternate library available on Debian
> GNU/Linux (V0.88 and V0.89 are also packaged). However, V0.86 is
> libc5-based and since it also depends on xpm4.7 I'm told it no
> longer works with XFree 4.0 (I don't have XFree 4.0 installed
> myself yet, so I can't confirm this). It will be therefore be
> removed from Debian's `testing' distribution, codenamed `woody'.
>
> I don't think it's used by many users. Thus, I am planing to
> have it removed from Debian's `unstable' development distribution
> as well. Do you all think this is a good idea? Any reason I
> shouldn't?
>
> To put this in context, as soon as XForms is Open Source I plan
> to upload it to Debian proper (the `main' archive that gets on
> official CDs) and then call for the removal of all currently
> non-free (in Debian parlance) versions as soon as all Debian
> packages that depend on them are rebuild using the free library.
> So this would simply be removing V0.86 earlier than V0.88 and
> V0.89.
>
> Thanks for input,
>
> Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
> Debian maintainer for XForms
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