Re: CinePaint removed from testing
(hrm; apparently I've been bcc:ed?)
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:47:36AM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote:
> Hi. I'm the CinePaint project leader. I got a note from Daniel James at
> 64Studio that CinePaint has been removed from Debian. I tried contacting
> Debian maintainer Andrew Lau by email, but got no reply.
> Daniel pointed me toward the Debian bug report, see below. I don't know
> what it means. What's the problem? What needs to be done?
> Thank you!
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Daniel James
> > I looked into it, and the problem is that Cinepaint has been removed
> > from Debian. It's in Etch, but nothing later:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cinepaint.html
> > I suspect this is the bug responsible for the removal:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435890
> > Are you in touch with Andrew Lau, the Debian package maintainer? We'd
> > like to see this fixed and Cinepaint go back into Debian
> > unstable/testing. Then we can use our autobuilder to backport newer
> > Cinepaint releases to Etch, and 64 Studio 2.x.
That would be the bug that caused cinepaint to be removed from testing, but
the package has also been removed now from unstable due to
http://bugs.debian.org/437837 (as listed at
http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals-2007.txt).
If there is now a version of cinepaint that doesn't require GTK+1.2, then I
guess at least one cause for its removal has been superseded and the package
could be re-added to Debian if someone is willing to maintain it.
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