On 06.12.2011 10:04, Olly Betts wrote: > Failing a patch appearing and fixing everything for us, or 3.0 getting > released soon, I'm wondering if it might be less work and less risk of > breaking things for me to adopt libgnomeprintui and any dependencies for > wheezy. It's at least a constrained reprieve for them, as we know wx 3.0 > will have GtkPrint support. Are these libraries actually problematic to > keep around, or is it rather than the pkg-gnome team don't have the > resources to keep obsolete libraries around?
It's basically libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui and libgnomecups. As GNOME has moved away from those libs and no current GNOME applications use them anymore I think no one in the Debian GNOME team is actively using and testing them anymore. At least I myself have removed them quite some time ago. And maintaining a package which you don't use is obviously not ideal. As upstream stopped development, the maintenance is basically a downstream responsibility now. It's not that those three libs did take a vast amount of time in the past, but rather no-one in the GNOME team wants to keep this dead code around and be responsible for it. >>> What are the plans regarding getting packages updated to 2.8 and >>> removing 2.6? > > Some good news - 2.6 was removed from unstable yesterday, and so should be > gone from testing too in 10 days, unless something RC pops up in a > dependent package. So progress there at least, and one less thing needing > my time. Nice work. 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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