On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Martin Pitt [2016-03-10 7:17 +0100]: > > There are no auto-removals in Ubuntu, just some assisted manual > > procedure which is painfully slow and apparently not being done any > > more at all. > > FWIW, I've been running this since this morning, and it's indeed a > thankless job. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! > I run into dozens of packages which got removed in > Debian, but have one reverse dependency left in Ubuntu which nobody > updated in ages (like xfce4-volumed, artikulate → qtmobility, or > gmtk). > > I think it's quite safe to say that anything which hasn't been ported > upstream to gst 1.0 is just simply dead, and just won't happen. So we > could be more aggressive and remove the rdepends too, but the problem > is that at least from my POV as archive admin I don't know enough > about these leaf packages to say whether it's sufficiently ok to > remove them. > If there is a larger output that we could review I'd be willing to take some of that investigation on. Otherwise, I'll go ahead and review xfce4-volumed, gmtk, and any other packages I may have missed as part of wxw2.8/gst0.10 rdepends (there do appear to be some...). Kind regards, Bryan > > Martin > > -- > Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de > Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >
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