On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:14:52 -0500 Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> wrote: > Source: rarian > Version: 0.8.1-6 > Severity: serious > User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: oldlibs rarian > Tags: sid buster > > scrollkeeper has been deprecated and unmaintained for years. Its > replacement, rarian has been deprecated for years too. More > importantly, it doesn't seem to be needed at all. yelp can easily > display Docbook help files without any .omf files. > > We do not intend to ship rarian in Debian 10 "Buster". > > About half the affected packages in Testing already have patches > prepared or are trivial to fix. The remainder probably just need to > have scrollkeeper dropped from their build systems (which might involve > some work with autoreconf and removing old copies of autoconf macros. > Many of the affected packages have *old* build systems.). > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-gnome-maintaine > r...@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=rarian > > On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, > Jeremy Bicha > >
Hi, FYI: There are still ~15-16 open bugs on the bts tagged rarian (I have made them blockers via a separate update). If the plan is still to remove rarian for Buster, these bugs should be resolved before the transition freeze (2019-01-12). Is this still the plan? Thanks, ~Niels
