Comment 4 for bug 1660216

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.