Hi all! As suggested by KiBi I am forwarding this here to get your opinion about removing this package.
Thanks Christoph -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Considering package removal [glademm] Weitersenden-Datum: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:23:20 +0000 (UTC) Weitersenden-Von: debian-ment...@lists.debian.org Datum: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:52:29 +0100 Von: Christoph Egger <christ...@coders-nemesis.eu> An: debian-ment...@lists.debian.org Newsgruppen: gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors As I have never requested removal of an package I'm asking here for some opinions to make sure my thoughts are reasonable. Any comments are welcome! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Some Data: * Popcon inst: 359 * Open Bugs: 6 <=3D normal * Last upstream release: May 2005 * priority: optional * Section: devel =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D I'm currently maintaining glademm, which is an sourcecode generator producing C++ sources from glade files. While doing so I'm currently going through the pieces upstream left unreleased. However I'm in serious doubt this is worth the trouble. First of all, glademm is unmaintained upstream for years. While this would not be an reason for removal on it's own I see it as an hint. Furthermore the way glademm works is deprecated (as is glade as an code generator) and should be replaced by libglade(mm). It is impossible in debian to create C Sources from glade (C being the =C2=ABoriginal=C2=BB G= TK language) but it's still possible to create C++ Sources. Well glademm's functionality is quite limited, too. Accoring to actual code =C2=ABgnome2 support is still experimental=C2=BB but in debian it is= actually broken (#126054 for example) (it requires libbonobomm which is not available). Doing some simple gtk2 stuff however works (with some limitations, see bugpage). One of the reasons to go backporting some more recent commits was some bug fixed there (see #335696). But while doing so I realised nearly all test in the testsuit currently fail. While I will certainly be able to at least fix the now present gettext problem it will cause considerable work. Regards Christoph Egger -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon : GPG-Key ID: 0x0372275D \ / Campaign : X against HTML : Working for Debian / \ in eMails : http://www.debian.org/
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