On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 02:39:05PM -0700, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Rik Mills <rikmills@kubuntu.org> wrote:
> > See bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698063
> > "libechonest has been removed from Debian unstable, with the rationale
> > that it uses an external API that no longer exists (Debian bug #862551).
> > tomahawk-player depends on libechonest, which prevents libechonest's
> > removal. Either the Kubuntu team needs to take responsibility for
> > libechonest and fix it so that it's usable, or tomahawk-player needs to
> > be fixed not to depend on it, or tomahawk-player needs to be removed
> > from the archive."
> > The player seems pretty dead upstream, and even has the commit in github:
> > https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk/commit/c8389592488c07079f40e7edb9195cfabbc58740
> > that to all effects it "is abandoned".
> > I've never had anything to do with this project, so I am asking for
> > opinions on continued 'fixing'
> > Ref kubuntu policy on unmaintained/dead upstream projects:
> > https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/Policies#Unmaintained_Software_Bugs
> It was a great project for awhile, full of enthusiastic devels. Now it
> is dead, so I vote for saying goodbye, and removing it from the
> archive. If it returns from the dead, we can always bring it back as a
> new project.
Thanks. If this is the position of the Kubuntu team, can you please comment
to such on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698063 and retitle it as a
request for tomahawk-player's removal?
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