Bug#894262: closed by Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> (gconf has been adopted)

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:21 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:
> We have (sometimes quite popular) packages that are unmaintained
> upstream for over 20 years - this is not a problem, actually far
> less of a problem than active upstreams breaking various stuff.
>
> And the package is not unmaintained in Debian, it is maintained by the
> Debian QA Group. This is pretty well maintained by Debian standards,
> it doesn't happen here that a trivial one-line FTBFS fix does not get
> applied for over half a year.

Hmm, so I guess we'll wait 9 months or so and then remove regexxer
from Debian? If so, we could still reopen this bug and just mark it
buster-ignore or something.

Anyway, there are
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gconf
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gconf-editor

Let me know where you want those repos to be moved to.

Because of issues with the svn-to-gconf conversion, tagged releases
might not exactly match what was actually uploaded for that version
number.

I don't think it really makes sense to keep gconf-editor in Debian.
Until you pushed stuff back into Testing, there was only one package
in Testing that used gconf (eclipse). Even now, there's really not
enough in Testing to justify needing to use gconf-editor to change
settings.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha