Debian Bug report logs - #538731
should xboing be dropper from Debian?

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

From: Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri@rulezlan.org>

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

Subject: should xboing be dropper from Debian?

Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:20:17 +0200

Package: xboing
Version: 2.4-31
Severity: important

Xboing is dead upstream since 1996(!) is not that popular and looks very
oudated. Should we continue to maintain it?

     Gonéri

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xboing depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-21     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxpm4                       1:3.5.7-2  X11 pixmap library

xboing recommends no packages.

xboing suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 538731@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri@rulezlan.org>

Cc: 538731@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: should xboing be dropper from Debian?

Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:06:13 +0200

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:20:17PM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> Package: xboing
> Version: 2.4-31
> Severity: important
> 
> Xboing is dead upstream since 1996(!) is not that popular and looks very
> oudated. Should we continue to maintain it?

I'd go for removal. There're far better Breakout-like games in the archive.

Cheers,
        Moritz

Message #17 received at 538731-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 538731-done@bugs.debian.org,550787-done@bugs.debian.org,557362-done@bugs.debian.org,636811-done@bugs.debian.org,

Cc: xboing@packages.debian.org, xboing@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#544928: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 10:37:55 +0000

Version: 2.4-31+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package xboing has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/544928

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

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