Bug#672391: libsigc++-1.2: Remove this disuse version of libsigc++

[Markus Koschany]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:14:47 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> > There are only 2 packages in the whole archive depending on it (versus 150+
> > for 2.0) : asc and freqtweak. These packages are themselves quite dusty.
> 
> I'll bump the severity of those two packages as well for the same reason.

Hi,

I have talked to ASC upstream about this issue. The community around ASC
is still active but there is currently nobody who could completely
replace libsigc++-1.2 with libsigc++-2.0. Of course they would
appreciate a patch. However they are also willing to include
libsigc++-1.2 in their source tree.

I think in this case this is acceptable because libsigc++-1.2 is a well
tested library which has not seen any major security bugs or other
serious flaws during the past nine years. It also works very well with
ASC which is an old but stable and even more important enjoyable game.

I have also considered to maintain libsigc++-1.2 but since I have no
particular interest outside the scope of ASC for this library, it is
better to remove it from Debian. freqtweak looks unmaintained upstream
and in Debian, so I would agree with a removal as well.

Regards,

Markus

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