From 0bf554ce06746ca4d6b9ecc92ea149144c797508 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gothicx Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:19:32 -0500 Subject: --- doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn (limited to 'doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn b/doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8f0482791 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Hi! + +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 -- cgit v1.2.3 From a86638f980db533447bbc3d332a4b762efbf7a5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:48:12 -0500 Subject: response --- doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn b/doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn index 8f0482791..b4e2a1501 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/remove_orphaned_sparkline-php_from_Suggests.mdwn @@ -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]] -- cgit v1.2.3