Debian Bug report logs - #257994
Please remove freehoo

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Gopal Narayanan <gopal@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: O: freehoo -- console Yahoo messenger client with guile and readline interfaces

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:49:58 -0400

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am not able to do full justice to all my packages, as things are a
bit busy right now. Freehoo depends on the (currently) broken package
libyahoo2. Freehoo has not seen any activity upstream in quite
sometime, and has several grave bugs outstanding in the BTS. I would
be tempted to completely remove this package, but want to initially
orphan this, just in case there are aficionados of this package, who
are able to provide it TLC.

The package description is:
 Purely console based Yahoo messenger client application which has
 geeky "readline" and "guile" interfaces. It connects to the Yahoo
 server using the "libyahoo" library.
 .
 Freehoo is highly extensible through the scheme language. Readline
 support means that it has powerful command-line editing and history
 features. It supports almost all of the features of the conventional
 Yahoo messenger for example email alert, conference, ignore, etc. It
 also has numerous additional features not contained in the original
 client.
 .
 Freehoo was formerly called gnuyahoo, whose name was changed due to
 concerns about trademarks. The old gnuyahoo debian package is
 deprecated and exists only as a dummy package to install freehoo, but
 will be dropped in future.


Gopal

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Gopal Narayanan <gopal@debian.org> <gopal@astro.umass.edu>
Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Message #8 received at 257994@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>

To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org

Subject: freehoo

Date: 08 Aug 2004 16:53:31 -0700

See bug 228039.  

Freehoo should, in my opinion, be dropped from unstable.  The last
change in the upstream CVS was seven months ago, and given that yahoo
changes its protocols frequently (and deliberately to frustrate free
clients)--and since gaim is doing a decent job of keeping up--there
doesn't seem to be any point to keep the package around.

I have sent a query to the upstream maintainer asking if the package
is still being maintained.  Assuming it is not, we should punt it from
Debian entirely (and not just from testing).

Thomas


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From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: 257994@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [tb@becket.net: freehoo]

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:24:49 +0100

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From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
Subject: freehoo
Date: 08 Aug 2004 16:53:31 -0700
To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3


See bug 228039.  

Freehoo should, in my opinion, be dropped from unstable.  The last
change in the upstream CVS was seven months ago, and given that yahoo
changes its protocols frequently (and deliberately to frustrate free
clients)--and since gaim is doing a decent job of keeping up--there
doesn't seem to be any point to keep the package around.

I have sent a query to the upstream maintainer asking if the package
is still being maintained.  Assuming it is not, we should punt it from
Debian entirely (and not just from testing).

Thomas


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Message #18 received at 257994@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 257995@bugs.debian.org, 257994@bugs.debian.org

Subject: remove

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:25:06 +0100

reassign 257995 ftp.debian.org
retitle 257995 Please remove libyahoo2

reassign 257994 ftp.debian.org
retitle 257994 Please remove freehoo
thanks

RoQA; orphaned, never part of a stable release, not clear if they're
still developed upstream

Oh, and the Yahoo protocol has changed, making freehoo unusable (see
#228039).
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #27 received at 257994-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 257994-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#257994: fixed

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:20:06 -0400

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

   freehoo |    2.0.0-1 | alpha
   freehoo |  2.0.0-1.1 | m68k, mips, mipsel, sparc
   freehoo |    2.0.0-2 | source, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, powerpc, s390
  gnuyahoo |    2.0.0-2 | all

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
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