Package is obsolete and should be removed

This package is still in use by apt-xapian-index. How should this be handled? Is python3-xapian a drop-in replacement for python3-xapian1.3?

I've not looked at how it was packaged, but the upstream code looks to be compatible.

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.

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.

IIRC, the a-x-i dependency on xapian1.3-bindings was because at the time only 1.3 support Python 3. I'll do some simple testing to see if we can just use python3-xapian. I suspect that will work just fine.

This bug was fixed in the package apt-xapian-index - 0.47ubuntu12

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apt-xapian-index (0.47ubuntu12) zesty; urgency=medium

  * d/control: Drop the explicit Depends/Build-Depends on
    python3-xapian1.3 since that was a development snapshot we only used
    in our port to Python 3. Straight up python3-xapian (1.4) has
    everything we need. (LP: #1660216)

 -- Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Apr 2017 13:29:18 -0400

Removing packages from zesty:
 xapian1.3-bindings 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty
  python-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty amd64
  python-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty arm64
  python-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty armhf
  python-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty i386
  python-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty powerpc
  python-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty ppc64el
  python-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty s390x
  python3-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty amd64
  python3-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty arm64
  python3-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty armhf
  python3-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty i386
  python3-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty powerpc
  python3-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty ppc64el
  python3-xapian1.3 1.3.4-0ubuntu1 in zesty s390x
Comment: Unused, obsoleted by current xapian-bindings; LP: #1660216
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