On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 06:09:32PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 at 15:03:11 +0200, Gert Wollny wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > (Adrian won't have seen this unless he's subscribed to the bug or > package, because bug submitters don't normally get copies of bug mail > in the Debian BTS; adding him to Cc.)
Thanks. > > as the maintainer of amide[1], a package that depends on libgnomecanvas > > I was also already thinking about adopting this package and libart- > > lgpl. In other words I'd happily join to co-maintain these two > > packages. I am not a huge fan of co-maintaining low-effort packages,[1] either you or me maintaining a package would be fine for me. > Do you (either or both of you) also intend to adopt the language bindings > src:libgnomecanvasmm2.6 (in theory currently maintained by Deng Xiyue, > most recent maintainer upload 2009)? Good point, I haven't yet looked at these. > Everything I said below "My concern about keeping packages like gconf" > in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895246#10 applies > equally here. If, having considered that, you still want to adopt these > libraries, I don't think anyone will stop you. Thanks. > Both libgnomecanvas and libgnomecanvasmm are listed as "archived" > in GNOME git, so they have no upstream maintainer. If you adopt them, > you will be the closest thing there is to their upstream maintainer; > it might be a good idea to start a new upstream project (forked from > the archived GNOME source code) that other distributions can share, > particularly if you plan to modify things that are annoying to do via > a patch series, like the build system. I do not see any reason for changing something like the build system. Looking at the currently applied patches and the BTS, libgnomecanvas in buster might apply up to 5 one-line patches to the upstream sources. > Because these packages mention "gnome" in their names, it would be great > if you could reduce confusion by modifying their Description to clarify > that they are no longer considered to be part of (current) GNOME. Makes sense (similar to e.g. #887783). >... > smcv cu Adrian [1] it often just makes it harder to discover that all people are MIA -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
