[pkg-gnupg-maint] RM: gnupg-doc -- ROM; package is outdated, dead upstream and actively confusing [was: Re: gnupg-doc in debian?]

[Don Armstrong]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Don, I know i'm technically not the maintainer of gnupg-doc itself, but
> i'm on the pkg-gnupg team, which is directly affected by the confusion
> is generated by this package, and we've had some discussions over the
> past two years about how to handle the maintenance.  So i hope you don't
> mind my taking the liberty of filing this RM bug report.

I concur; this package should be removed until such time as the upstream
documentation is actually up-to-date. [I was actually looking at filing
the bug myself just two days ago and didn't have time.]


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