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diff --git a/doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn b/doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn
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@@ -5,3 +5,16 @@ How about to replace sparkline-php from Suggests by a better alternative?
 I would like to file a RM bug to get it out of archive. Do you have a better alternative for it? PHP has a lot of them..
 
 Thanks
+
+> sparline-php is orphaned *in Debian*. Upstream, is has seen activity as
+> recently as 11 months ago.
+>
+> I don't know of a better alternative. I looked at the perl sparkline
+> stuff in CPAN and is was bad enough that the pain of using php from this
+> perl program was a better alternative.
+> 
+> Anyway, it works great; maintaining the sparkline-php package in Debian
+> would certianly be much less work than finding some alternative and
+> rewriting the ikiwiki code to use it, *and* packaging that alternative
+> and maintaining it in Debian. So your suggestion doesn't make a lot of
+> sense; Debian should just find a maintainer for sparkline-php. --[[Joey]]