Hi Julien, On 01.05.2012 12:33, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Le 04/30/2012 11:16 PM, Michael Biebl a écrit : >> No reply since you poked upstream about this issue over a month ago. >> Is this package still actively developed upstream? Should it be removed >> from the Debian archive? >> We really do not want to ship 4 vala versions in wheezy and awn is the >> last package depending on vala-0.10. >> Updating to vala-0.12 won't help much either, since this is the other >> versions scheduled to be removed. >> >> If you want to keep awn, would you be willing to take over maintenance >> of valac-0.10? Please keep in mind though, that this version is no >> longer maintained upstream. > I ping some devs from upstream to see if they can help. However, I may > have some time to migrate it myself, not in the coming days, but before > the freeze of June. In the meantime, you can remove it if it's a > blocking item. > > I don't want to take the maintenance of vala 0.10 only for Awn. If I > can't migrate it, it should be removed from the archive. However, I > still think it's a useful application, with not yet a real alternative. > It could be useful for wheezy at this current state (even if the > development stopped), and be reconsidered for wheezy+1.
I've been discussing with Luca (on of our friendly ftp masters) today what we are going to do with vala 0.10 and awn, since we'd like to get that sorted for wheezy. Would you be ok with removing awn from testing so we can proceed with the removal of vala 0.10? We could keep it in unstable, and mark this bug as RC so it doesn't automatically migrate until you or upstream have the time to do the porting. In that case awn can migrate and will be part of wheezy. The alternative would be, to remove awn completely, but if I understand you correctly you are still interested in it, so removing only from testing keeps the door open for further development. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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