On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:35:54PM +0000, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 10:34 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:10:26AM +0000, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > Don't start filing remove requests until other maintainers have a > > > chance. Take the step of contacting those who maintain packages that > > > depend on the libraries you want to remove, post RFAs instead of remove > > > requests, and only post remove requests after people have had a goodly > > > chance to take over maintenance themselves. > > > > Please, gnome 1.x is discontinued for years now, and the number of > > packages that depends upon gnome-libs is fairly limited now, it's a > > bearable task. FWIW the current list of package is: > > This is what people said before, and gnucash nearly vanished from Debian > because the gnome team hadn't bothered to alert me or arrange an orderly > transition. > > So please, let these maintainers choose, rather than ordering them > about. It is *they* who are in a position to decide whether maintaining > gnome 1.x is worth it. Of course, it will also be up to them to do the > maintenance. Now explain me why _you_ who aren't concerned by the transition are from far the most vocal about it ? > > Most of those package either have far better alternatives (gabber, > > gtoaster, …), are libs (lib*, gnomemm, …) or will probably easily drop > > the dependency (xemacs21, nethack, …). Most of the upstreams of those > > applications are dead, and the applications don't budge, and there is > > little point in having them in lenny when you can use the version in > > etch on your lenny without a problem. > > Most? Really? Wow, I'm impressed. Are you sure? People said this the > last time around, and they forgot gnucash. How about we let these > maintainers make that determination rather than you making it for them? I opened bugs on the packages so that people can discuss it, and I'll monitor them closely I said it. The fact that you don't seem to trust my word that it's exactly what I'll do is insulting. And again please stop Cc-ing debian-release. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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