Re: aplus-fsf REMOVED from testing

[Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org>]

On Jun 24, Sune Vuorela (nospam@vuorela.dk) wrote:
 > On 2009-06-24, Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org> wrote:
 > > I received the below email that my package, aplus-fsf, was removed from
 > > testing. Apparently that is due to the removal of gtk 1.2, but aplus-fsf has
 > > no direct dependency on gtk 1.2.  I'm a little surprised at the removal - no
 > > bugs were filed, no lintian error that the package depended on an obsolete
 > > package, etc.  Anyway... why exactly it was removed and what needs to happen
 > > to get it back into testing?  Below the email are the relevant lines from
 > > http://release.debian.org/britney/hints/neilm.
 > >
 > > >     # gtk 1.2 removal, 20090527
 > > >     # Round 3:
 > >
 > > # Round 3:
 > > remove xemacs21/21.4.22-1 gtk+1.2/1.2.10-18.1 toolbar-fancy/0.07-7.1 aplus-fsf/4.22.1-1
 > 
 > A wild guess would be aplus-fsf-el built from aplus-fsf source package
 > depending on xemacs21-nomule, built from xemacs21 source package.
 > 
 > I do agree that you should have been adviced beforehand.
 > 
 > >From a quick view, it looks like either dropping the -el package or
 > somehow depending on some other emacs flavour will let aplus-fsf flow
 > back into testing once a new version is 10 days old.
 > 
 > /Sune

Thanks. So, another alternative would be for xemacs to remove its dependence
on gtk 1.2, correct?  I'll explore that angle as well.

-- 
Neil Roeth