Just so you know, libbiod does not depend on undead. We imported the relevant sources (a small subset).
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 04:45:28PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Am Do., 19. Sept. 2019 um 08:29 Uhr schrieb Andreas Tille > <andr...@fam-tille.de>: > > > > Hi Matthias, > > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:49:54AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > > > As I told you before: I have no idea about meson. It would be great if > > > > we could get it working but if we restrict the package to those > > > > architectures where it builds out of the box and save some manpower I > > > > bet the world will keep on turning round. > > > > > > It's not just that. Also the build needs to be changed to respect > > > Debian's compile flags, build a shared library and write a pkg-config > > > file. All doable with Makefiles, but not really much fun. At that > > > point just using Meson becomes easier. > > > The package is team-maintained, right? In that case I may just give > > > this a shot this weekend and get the biod package to build again. It > > > shouldn't actually by hard to do at all (famous last words.... :P) > > > > Its team maintained and you are member of the team. Just push whatever > > you consider sensible. > > I'll have a look, maybe at the weekend. This really shouldn't be > difficult to solve. > > > > > > Btw, if libundead has no users anymore, removing it completely may be > > > > > a good idea - we don't need to maintain something that's dead and has > > > > > no users. > > > > > > > > I was about to file a removal request to ftpmaster before you said in > > > > your last mail that the former build issue might have been caused due > > > > to the lack of libundead. I would really love to get rid of unneeded > > > > packages. > > > > > > Better check for reverse dependencies, but if there are none, I don't > > > see a need to keep it. > > > > $ apt-cache rdepends libundead0 > > libundead0 > > Reverse Depends: > > libundead-dev > > sambamba > > libundead-dev > > libbiod0 > > Oh, it has more rdeps than just libbiod, in that case we probably need > to keep it for a bit longer! > > > > Undead is basically deprecated & removed D > > > stdlib modules with zero or very little maintenance, so generally > > > something a project wants to get rid of rather quickly anyway, and > > > quite likely nothing worth keeping in Debian on its own. > > > > So I'll ask for removal since if I understood you correctly it will > > go away from both projects above. > > -- > I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/Don't do that just yet! > UndeaD is stuff removed from the D standard library for projects which > didn't go ahead with removing the deprecated stuff to depend on. Those > projects should move away from the deprecated code ASAP, but if they > haven't, we need undeaD for them. > (The undead library itself doesn't receive much maintenance though, > that is true - there is usually a reason for why some things were > removed from the srdlib ^^) > > Cheers, > Matthias
