On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> wrote: > Philipp Kern escreveu isso aí: >> Paul, >> >> am Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 02:49:26PM +0000 hast du folgendes geschrieben: >> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: >> > > Package: alexandria >> > > Version: 0.6.6-1 >> > > Severity: serious >> > > >> > > ruby-gnome2 dropped some deprecated packages and hence your package is no >> > > longer installable in unstable. The affected dependencies are >> > > libgconf2-ruby, >> > > libgnome2-ruby and libglade2-ruby. >> > >> > Is there a suggested upgrade path, or have the libraries themselves >> > been removed and orphaned? >> > >> > I guess, what I'm really asking is, is this an upstream issue or >> > something we can solve here in Debian? > > Upstream decided that those specific subpackages are now absolete and > will not be maintained anymore, so they were dropped on Debian as well. > >> I'm sadly just the messenger as I noticed that ruby-gnome2 cannot >> migrate because of this and that the packages were dropped without >> properly communicating the issue (i.e. filing bugs). > > My bad, I should really have filled bugs after uploading ruby-gnome2. > Thanks Philipp for doing that. > > But it is important to note that this was explicitly communicated to all > affected maintainers one month ago: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2011/07/msg00049.html
I missed that, sorry. Looks like I was CC'd. Guess it's on me. Thanks for the heads up. What's the plan for these packages? Straight removal? Communicate with upstream to try to re-implement using a different library? Are there any similar libraries that could be used for a fork if upstream's unwilling or inactive? > > That message contained all the whats, whys and hows, but unfortunately > we only got a reply for 1 out of the 5 affected packages. > > -- > Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> > Thanks for the RE :) Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
