Christof Petig wrote: > There is no reason for glademm to build "depend" on libgnomemm-dev! It > simply tests libgnomemm for existance to provide a reasonable default > version. Since these days libgnomemm is rarely used (to say the least) > nobody would notice a missing default version. Thank you! This really does help clear things up a lot.
> File a bug against glademm to remove any build dependancy on any of the > gtk1/gnome1 libraries (the configure warnings are harmless, the > functionality is still fully usable), I simply hestitate to remove the > gtk1 functionality because it is still in use somewhere. Great! This unclogs things in Debian a lot. > Isn't this clear enough: > AC_MSG_CHECKING([for gnome-- 1.x version (not needed)]) > > Christof (who happens to be the glademm author) > > PS: Anybody to cc about this? Debian's glademm maintainer -- Bradley Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He's not really maintaining his packages right now, and seems to be "missing in action", unfortunately. :-P If you are a Debian Developer (or know one) who would like to maintain the glademm package for Debian, we could try to get Bradley to hand over the package. I'm also cc:ing debian-release, debian-qa, and debian-gtk-gnome. The original reason I was investigating this is because it's holding up the removal of libbonobomm1.3-dev and libbonobouimm1.3-dev, which are build-depended on by the glademm package but otherwise are unused libraries. So: * could someone please NMU glademm so that its build-depends looks like this: Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libgtkmm2.0-dev All the other build-depends are unneeded according to the author. * Could I get a consensus on QA and gtk-gnome that libbonobouimm1.3 and libbonobomm1.3 -- libraries for GNOME 1 which are totally unused in unstable -- should be removed from unstable? Could I then get some bugs filed against ftp.debian.org for that? Cc:ed to debian-release because that's where this all started, and because removal of the dead bonobo packages simplifies the necessary hints for the C++ transition significantly. (It also has the amusing side-effect that there will be no packages in unstable which are at higher than 'level 2' on Mike Furr's transition page at http://people.debian.org/~mfurr/gxx/rebuild.html). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
