My sarge server had a hard disk failure, so I've had to re-install
everything from scratch.  I went to install openwebmail, and the package
isn't there.  I'm 99% certain that I originally installed it with an
apt-get.  I did an apt-get -s openwebmail on an ubuntu box, and sure
enough it was there.  Thought maybe it was some licensing issue, but upon
checking found that it's gpl.  Do packages really get removed from Debian?

Dan

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Dan writes:
> Do packages really get removed from Debian?

Of course.  This one appears to have been removed for lack of anyone
interested in maintaining it.
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:47:22 +0800, Dan N
<dan@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
>
> My sarge server had a hard disk failure, so I've had to re-install
> everything from scratch.  I went to install openwebmail, and the package
> isn't there.  I'm 99% certain that I originally installed it with an
> apt-get.  I did an apt-get -s openwebmail on an ubuntu box, and sure
> enough it was there.  Thought maybe it was some licensing issue, but upon
> checking found that it's gpl.  Do packages really get removed from Debian?
>
I don't recall seeing anything about openwebmail in the debian-security
mailing list.  A search on packages.debian.org doesn't show it in any
distribution.  Are you sure you didn't get it from Ubuntu or from
apt-get.org?


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Bill Marcum writes:
> I don't recall seeing anything about openwebmail in the debian-security
> mailing list.  A search on packages.debian.org doesn't show it in any
> distribution.

It shows up in the BTS.  Looks like it it was removed due to many severe
bugs and no maintainer.
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:40:51 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote:

> Are you sure you didn't get it from Ubuntu or from
> apt-get.org?

Definitely not.  Didn't even know about apt-get.org until now.  Thanks for
the tip though, I found it there.

Dan

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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:35:53 -0500, John Hasler wrote:

>
> It shows up in the BTS.  Looks like it it was removed due to many severe
> bugs and no maintainer.

I never found any problems with it.  It's a good piece of software.

Dan

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Here's the explantion of where Openwebmail went:

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301561>
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:35:53 -0500, John Hasler
<jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
> Bill Marcum writes: 
>
> It shows up in the BTS.  Looks like it it was removed due to many severe
> bugs and no maintainer.

I found it listed in the "Orphaned Packages" in Debian Weekly News in
March.


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