Comment 10 for bug 334446

Some of the arguments for removal of gnome-pilot from the default distribution are a bit odd:

"PalmOS is no longer even supported by Palm"
  -- Take a look at: http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/
      Palm are still selling palmOS based devices. They will be supported for quite a while yet,
      and used for many more after that.

"PalmOS is a meaningless feature over here in Poland"
  -- I guess you left out "for me" from that sentence.

"From the launchpad page, it appears development upstream has stopped. The last major version released was 2.0.15 on 2006-12-19."
  -- gnome-pilot 2.0.16 was released in February 2008, gnome-pilot 2.0.17 was released in January 2009.
      I've mailed the Ubuntu <email address hidden> as I guess the maintainer
      didn't pick up on the new release.

"A Palm Pilot is not an essential piece of your computer's hardware."
  -- To many people, being able to sync calendar and contacts with your phone IS absolutely
      an essential feature of a desktop.

The package is useful for a bunch of people, including users new to Ubuntu who are delighted to find they can sync their phone with their desktop out-of-the-box. Compared to getting my Nokia to sync, where the Ubuntu forum page currently runs to 28 pages, PalmOS was a total breeze.

The dpkg is 200k.