Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

2022-05-30 Thread Yavor Doganov
tags 885786 + pending thanks Bastian Germann wrote: > Please drop the art backend package. dia is in the process of being > adopted and will also drop its art dependency, so we should make > this happen as soon as possible so that bookworm can come without > libart. Will do in a few weeks; in an

Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

2022-05-30 Thread Bastian Germann
On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:24:45 +0200 Yavor Doganov wrote: 2) The xlib backend comes with an additional tool: font_cacher. It's launched automatically by the backend and generates the cache as archived data in ~/GNUstep/Library/Fonts/Cache. It has the same problem as the gnustep-back-com

Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

2018-01-15 Thread Yavor Doganov
[ Dropping Jeremy from CC; I guess this message doesn't concern him. ] On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 02:59:18 +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: > There are several options: > > 1) Wait for the opal or wayland backends to be labelled "ready for > release". We can drop art immediately then. > > 2) Packa

Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

2017-12-29 Thread Yavor Doganov
Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Yavor Doganov wrote: > > 3) Take libart under our umbrella. (Provided it's a viable option > > in the first place.) > > As you can see, libart has had zero maintenance since 2010: It doesn't bother me much. Almost half of the GNUste

Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

2017-12-29 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Yavor Doganov wrote: > 3) Take libart under our umbrella. (Provided it's a viable option > in the first place.) As you can see, libart has had zero maintenance since 2010: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/libart_lgpl/ You are correct that libart was

Bug#885786: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

2017-12-29 Thread Ivan Vučica
> On 30 Dec 2017, at 00:59, Yavor Doganov wrote: > > 1) Wait for the opal or wayland backends to be labelled "ready for > release". We can drop art immediately then. It would be nice if Opal (Core Graphics) would be packaged anyway (a requirement for the -back opal). I’m not aware of app

Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

2017-12-29 Thread Yavor Doganov
Control: tags -1 - patch Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Source: gnustep-back > Could you please help by removing the art backend package? It doesn't > have any reverse-depends in Debian. I'm afraid we'll have to postpone this request. Thanks for the patch, but I'm formally removing the patch tag because

Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

2017-12-29 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Source: gnustep-back Version: 0.25.0-2 Severity: important User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs Tags: sid buster patch As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with the old libgnome (and related) libraries. These libraries have been deprecat