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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]] |