Re: sparse dictionary

From	"Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: sparse dictionary
Date	2022-01-31 03:40 +0100
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 08:28:29PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:52:36AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:32:26PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:26PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:41:07AM +1100, Charlie wrote:
>> > > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:18:42 +0000
>> > > > "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> wrote:>

>Well... according to packages.debian.org, dict-moby-thesaurus only exists
>in oldstable and oldoldstable.  So, Debian 9 and 10.
>
><https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dict-moby-thesaurus> shows the dates
>it was removed from unstable and from testing.
>
><https://tracker.debian.org/news/1161371/removed-10-64-from-unstable/>
>shows that it was removed because:
>
>RoQA; dead upstream (10+ years); python2-only; no extrenal deps; extremely low popcon

Thanks for taking the time to trace out the cause.  It truly is a sad
loss.

I wish I knew enough about Python to know how much work it would take
to make the data base compatible with Python 3 (or whatever dictionary
currently is running on).  Meanwhile, it is back to Roget.

RLH

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sparse dictionary "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2022-01-30 20:50 +0100
  Re: sparse dictionary Charlie <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2022-01-30 22:50 +0100
    Re: sparse dictionary "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2022-01-31 01:20 +0100
      Re: sparse dictionary Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-31 01:40 +0100
        Re: sparse dictionary Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-31 02:30 +0100
          Re: sparse dictionary "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2022-01-31 03:40 +0100
            Re: sparse dictionary The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-31 04:40 +0100
              converting Python2 to Python3 (was: sparse dictionary) Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2022-01-31 05:20 +0100
                Re: converting Python2 to Python3 The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-31 13:50 +0100
                Re: converting Python2 to Python3 Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2022-01-31 17:40 +0100
              Re: sparse dictionary "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2022-01-31 06:20 +0100
                Re: sparse dictionary Charlie <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2022-01-31 06:50 +0100
                Re: sparse dictionary Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2022-01-31 07:50 +0100
                Re: sparse dictionary The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-31 14:00 +0100
                Re: sparse dictionary Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-01-31 14:40 +0100
                Re: sparse dictionary The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-31 15:10 +0100
            Re: sparse dictionary Charlie <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2022-01-31 06:40 +0100
              Re: sparse dictionary Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-31 13:40 +0100
          Re: sparse dictionary Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2022-01-31 07:40 +0100
            Re: sparse dictionary David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-31 17:50 +0100
        Re: sparse dictionary "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2022-01-31 02:50 +0100

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