Remove xsplash from the archive?

[Steve Langasek]

I noticed recently that I had an ubuntu-xsplash-artwork package installed on my system. I know we're not using xsplash anymore in the standard desktop, we're using plymouth instead - and the package looks to be on autopilot from lucid on (last upload not triggered by an archive-tidying QA problem was in karmic).

Since xsplash is code for which Canonical is upstream, and it appears to now be unmaintained, should we be removing it from the archive? I think the answer is probably yes.

Subscribing Cody as the author, and canonical-dx as the owning team, to comment.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xsplash (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 23 13:32:07 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xsplash
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-27 (88 days ago)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Indeed this was an evolutionary dead end, has zero rdepends, and was only used in one non-LTS release.

2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO Removing candidates:
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO xsplash 0.8.5-0ubuntu4 in oneiric
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO ubuntu-xsplash-artwork 0.8.5-0ubuntu4 in oneiric amd64
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO ubuntu-xsplash-artwork 0.8.5-0ubuntu4 in oneiric armel
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO ubuntu-xsplash-artwork 0.8.5-0ubuntu4 in oneiric i386
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO ubuntu-xsplash-artwork 0.8.5-0ubuntu4 in oneiric powerpc
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO xsplash 0.8.5-0ubuntu4 in oneiric amd64
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO xsplash 0.8.5-0ubuntu4 in oneiric armel
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO xsplash 0.8.5-0ubuntu4 in oneiric i386
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO xsplash 0.8.5-0ubuntu4 in oneiric powerpc
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO Removed-by: Martin Pitt
2011-10-12 07:12:42 INFO Comment: unused, unmaintained, LP#857745