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Bug#898667: marked as done (O: pstotext -- Extract text from PostScript and PDF files)

Your message dated Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:49:16 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1060239: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #898667,
regarding O: pstotext -- Extract text from PostScript and PDF files
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the pstotext package.

The package description is:
 pstotext extracts text (in the ISO 8859-1 character set) from a PostScript
 or PDF (Portable Document Format) file. Thus, pstotext is similar to the
 ps2ascii program that comes with ghostscript. The output of pstotext is
 however better than that of ps2ascii, because pstotext deals better with
 punctuation and ligatures.

There is no active upstream, last release was in 2004. 

I no longer use the software regularly and recent grave bug #895513 [1]
touches security issues which should be sorted out by someone who is actually
proficient in PostScript.

Anyone considering adopting this package should also consider adopting
and reviving the upstream.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895513

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Version: 1.9-7+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package pstotext has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1060239

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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