On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:26:00 +0200 Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> writes: > > Ludovic: now is the time to adopt gtk+extra2 and/or subsume it into > > Ada. I don't think we can wait for upstream to do something in 8 months > > time. Honestly, I don't think adoption is the right approach. Either > > libgtkada subsumes the parts of gtk+extra2 that it needs into it's own > > sources or libgtkada just has to get by without gtk+extra2 completely > > *and quickly*. I really don't see any other option - there is no good > > reason to keep gtk+extra2 around until Ada upstream can do something > > about it in June 2010. gtk+extra2 needs to be gone before the end of > > 2009, certainly long before any freezes begin for Squeeze. > > I contacted the GtkAda upstream about this and they said GtkAda can get > by without gtk+extra2; more importantly, the one package that depends on > libgtkada2 does not need gtk+extra2 either. So I agree with you; I will > drop libgtkada2's dependency on gtk+extra2 so we can remove the package > from Squeeze. That's excellent news, thanks. Feel free to either let me know when the upload happens or just file the RM: RoQA bug for gtk+extra2 yourself once the dependency has gone. The only other dependency is gpsim which has already been orphaned for nearly 2 years and also appears to be dead upstream. gpsim source has a --disable-gui option for ./configure to disable the GUI part of the package which drops the gtk+extra2 dependency if someone really wants to retain the gpsim CLI. I've pinged the people I could identify as possibly interested in gpsim via #457486 and gp...@packages.debian.org but there was no sign of interest in gpsim from the two discussions on debian-devel this year. If nothing happens, a removal request will need to be filed against gpsim at the same time as the request to remove gtk +extra2. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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