Please remove rapache from Lucid

[Luca Falavigna]

Binary package hint: rapache

As described in http://bugs.debian.org/558123, rapache is no longer maintained upstream, thus is not suitable for inclusion in a long time support release. Please remove it from Lucid.

[TAC one (tacone)]

Beside you not having spoke with the right person, please remove it.

Rapache worked fine until Ubuntu 8.10, then some library changes made it not work anymore. Since I had no time and chance to hack on the trunk and given the fact that, notwithstanding the fact an easy known workaround[1] was there, motus nor anyone else took the time to patch the Ubuntu package, removing it once for all seems the right choice.

If ever (not for the next months) the development will resume, I'll make sure to fork the current trunk and change name to the project. Just to make sure people get to talk with the right ones.

[1] http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=rapache+workaround

ps: i'm not on debian, as far as I know the debian package never worked. See related bugs. Not - probably - Rapache's fault.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

2009-12-22 03:09:32 INFO creating lockfile
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO Removing candidates:
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO rapache 0.7-0ubuntu6 in lucid
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO rapache 0.7-0ubuntu6 in lucid amd64
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO rapache 0.7-0ubuntu6 in lucid armel
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO rapache 0.7-0ubuntu6 in lucid i386
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO rapache 0.7-0ubuntu6 in lucid ia64
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO rapache 0.7-0ubuntu6 in lucid lpia
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO rapache 0.7-0ubuntu6 in lucid powerpc
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO rapache 0.7-0ubuntu6 in lucid sparc
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO Removed-by: Steve Langasek
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO Comment: (From Debian) ROM; abandoned upstream, low popcon; Debian bug #558123
2009-12-22 03:09:37 INFO 8 packages successfully removed.
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2009-12-22 03:13:19 INFO Transaction committed.
2009-12-22 03:13:19 INFO The archive will be updated in the next publishing cycle.