Re: Bug#583257: ITP: haskell-gnomevfs -- Binding to the GNOME Virtual File System library

[William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>]

Hi,

----- "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:07:22PM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
> wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" <marcot@debian.org>
> > 
> > * Package name    : haskell-gnomevfs
> >   Version         : 0.11.0
> >   Upstream Author : Duncan Coutts
> > * URL             : http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/
> > * License         : LGPL-2.1+
> >   Programming Lang: Haskell
> >   Description     : Binding to the GNOME Virtual File System
> library
> 
> It's my understanding that gnome-vfs is deprecated upstream and is
> going
> away.  Most GNOME components no longer use it or include support for
> it.
> Do you really want to package a binding for unsupported software?

Indeed.  GVFS has replaced GnomeVFS in the GNOME platform.

William