[Bug 1660216] Re: Package is obsolete and should be removed

[Steve Langasek]

ok, opened a task on apt-xapian-index so that this can be dealt with
first before removal.

> Incidentally, please note that although launchpad lists me as "maintainer"
> of this package, I had nothing to do with creating it - I guess I'm listed
> there as it was forked from a package I maintain in Debian, and
> someone was too slack to update the metadata properly.

Apologies; there is a policy for maintainer fields in Ubuntu,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField, which was definitely not
followed here.  It looks like the correct solution in this case is to
just remove the package.

** Also affects: apt-xapian-index (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: apt-xapian-index (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  Package is obsolete and should be removed

Status in apt-xapian-index package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in xapian1.3-bindings package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  This package is obsolete now that xapian-bindings 1.4 has been synced from Debian, and should be
  removed.  It's a development snapshot of upstream code so won't get any sort of upstream support.

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