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Bug 480522 - www-client/htmlview removal request
Summary: www-client/htmlview removal request
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo TreeCleaner Project
URL: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb...
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Depends on: 488012
Blocks:
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Reported: 2013-08-10 17:55 UTC by Jonas Stein
Modified: 2014-03-24 07:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2013-08-10 17:55:15 UTC
http://www.redhat.com is not about htmlview

eix www-client/htmlview
* www-client/htmlview
     Available versions:  3.0.0-r1
     Homepage:            http://www.redhat.com
     Description:         A script which calls an installed HTML viewer.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-08-10 19:35:04 UTC
This package has no maintainer so this bug may go unnoticed for a long time.
Gentoo has a dedicated team[1] for assisting users in maintaining orphaned
packages. If you are interested in maintaining this package, please contact
proxy-maint@gentoo.org. 

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml

See URL for best match I could find so far...

Seems to have not received any more commits since 2010; might be inactive, dead.
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2013-10-13 11:28:37 UTC
As its description says in upstream:
htmlview and launchmail are tools for launching Preferred Applications.
This package exists for compatibility reasons and is likely to be removed
later when equivalent functionality is implemented elsewhere.

You need to migrate to xdg-open and co (from xdg-utils)
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/htmlview.git/tree/dead.package
Comment 3 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev 2013-10-14 13:09:15 UTC
Reassigning to treecleaners. Please, do not mask this package until we get resolution in dependant bugs, thanks.
Comment 4 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev 2014-02-12 10:49:57 UTC
Ok, no revdeps in tree for now, PMASKED.

# Dion Moult <moult@gentoo.org> (12 Feb 2014)
# Masked for removal in 30 days. Removed as this was a compatibility hack
# package, with equivalent functionality already implemented elsewhere (xdg-open
# and co). (bug #480522)
www-client/htmlview
Comment 5 Dion Moult (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-03-24 07:31:20 UTC
Package removed