Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org Control: retitle -1 RM: udisks-glue -- ROM; depends on obsolete udisks Control: block 785652 by -1
Am 08.06.2014 um 21:26 schrieb Fernando Lemos: > Em 04/06/2014, à(s) 02:52, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> escreveu: > >> Package: udisks-glue Version: 1.3.5-1 Severity: normal User: >> pkg-utopia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: >> udisks1-deprecation >> >> Hello, >> this package currently depends on/recommends udisks 1. That has been >> deprecated for a while now, in favor of udisks 2. Please port the >> package to udisks 2 and drop code that uses the old >> hal/devicekit-disks/udisks 1 bits. > > Hi, > > Wearing both my upstream and packager hats, I can say that this isn’t > going to happen. I looked into porting udisks-glue to udisks2 a long > time ago, and at the time I concluded that it’s simply not worth the > trouble. If I recall correctly, even if you could just ignore the > completely different API provided by udisks2, the functionality we > would be able to provide wouldn’t match what udisks-glue currently > offers. It’s unfortunate, but in the end it would be just easier to > create a completely new project from scratch. > > I understand and respect the desire to want to move away from udisks > 1, though. In the long term, my recommendation would be to remove > this package from the archives as udisks 1 and udisks-glue both > become irrelevant. Hi Fernando, I've just requested the removal of udisks [1]. Given your response, I'm reassigning this bug to ftp.debian.org, to request the removal of udisks-glue as well. If your position on this topic has changed, please let me know, so we can deal with this in another way. Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785652 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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