Comment 6 for bug 272746

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote : Re: [Bug 272746] Re: Please removed bookmarksftp from Intrepid

On 04/02/2009 10:16 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> This needs to go. It's totally dead upstream and is uninstallable.
>
> ** Changed in: bookmarksftp (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Please removed bookmarksftp from Intrepid
> + Please removed bookmarksftp from Jaunty
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> - Please remove bookmarksftp from Intrepid. It is not compatible with firefox 3.0 and hasnt been updated upstream since November of 2004.
> - I have already started looking for an extension to replace bookmarksftp. I am also talking with Debian see:
> - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492837
> - it has since moved to personal emails to reduce the clutter on the bug report.
> - If someone has any bookmark extensions that they prefer please let me know.
> + Please remove bookmarksftp source and mozilla-bookmarksftp binary from
> + Jaunty. It is not compatible with firefox 3.0 and hasn't been updated
> + upstream since November of 2004.
> +
> + Package has no rdepends
>
> ** Changed in: bookmarksftp (Ubuntu)
> Milestone: None => ubuntu-9.04
>
Scott, This should be removed from Intrepid as well, It doesnt support
firefox 3.0 and I'm not really up to supporting this without upstream.
There is not a "free" alternative. I was working on oine but upstream
never got back to me on license.

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