On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 12:15:42AM +0530, Utkarsh Gupta wrote: > In this case, the problem is really in another package. I don't think we > > should remove packages that are otherwise useful (a websocket library is > > most probably useful to have) just because nothing else in Debian uses > > them. People also write their custom applications targetted at Debian (I > > do), and even if those applications are never packaged themselves, > > having useful libraries in the archive makes that a lot easier. > > > > Duly agreed. > But here, one of the package is orphaned and the other is not being > actively maintained, perhaps because there is no reason to? > We are unable to get help in packages we actively want to maintain, so > adding packages that are not required at the moment (has been a while, > though) is a burden, no? It's only a burden if the package is actually broken. in this case ruby-websocket-parser _is_ broken, but ruby-websocket is not (and it matches the latest upstream release).
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