Re: depricating libgmp2
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:00:51AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Libgmp2 is basicly a rotting pile of junk. There is no upstream
> maintainer, and any actual bugs found there are all fixed in the new,
> maintained, libgmp3.
>
> I'm getting tired of having to drag this lump along every time I make a
> policy driven change to libgmp3. (see current bugs on libgmp2)
>
> I don't know of a single package that requires libgmp2 over libgmp3, and
> the current packaging allows only one -dev package, so the transition is
> seamless to the dependent packages.
>
> If there is someone out there who just has to have this package, I would
> love it if you would take over the package. Otherwise I'm ready to retire
> this package.
>
> Can anyone suggest a reason I should NOT remove libgmp2?
I converted the yacas package from depending on libgmp2 to libgmp3,
and forwarded changes upstream a month or two ago. The changes were
minimal and migration was easy. BTW only a handful of packages remain
in main that depend on libgmp2:
gopal@auric:/org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/dists/woody/main/binary-i386$grep-dctrl -F Depends -spackage,maintainer libgmp2 Packages
package: c2hs
maintainer: Michael Weber <michaelw@debian.org>
package: ghc4
maintainer: Michael Weber <michaelw@debian.org>
package: happy
maintainer: Michael Weber <michaelw@debian.org>
package: kaffe
maintainer: Ean R. Schuessler <ean@novare.net>
package: libgmp2-dev
maintainer: Dale Scheetz (Dwarf #1) <dwarf@polaris.net>
package: mozart
maintainer: Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>
package: pike-gmp
maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>
package: pike-image
maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>
package: python-mpz
maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
package: rscheme
maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Gopal.
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Gopal Narayanan <gopal@debian.org> <gopal@astro.umass.edu>
Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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