Re: Oldlibs transitions, and some old packages.

[Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net>]

Regis Boudin wrote:
> On Thu, December 20, 2007 09:29, Steve Langasek wrote:
>   
> > > (random rumbling:) libgtk1 has to die (and all it's requisites, like
> > > glib1.2). would be very, very, very nice if this can be accomplished for
> > > lenny.
> > >       
> > And one of the reverse-deps of gtk+1.2 is wxwindows2.4, which takes up
> > about 5x as much archive space as gtk+1.2 itself does.  In light of the
> > thread on -devel, perhaps you'd care to take the lead on eliminating the
> > reverse-dependencies of wxwindows2.4?
> >     
>
> After a quick look, the source packages build-depending on wxwindows2.4 are :
>
> - ctsim, maintainer is also upstream
>   
I've talk to Emmet on this one also.  Apparently ctsim builds fine 2.6 
but segfaults and he is having a hard time tracking down the source of 
the issue.  I may try to get in touch with upstream.

> - jugglemaster, first ever upload last month (!?)
>   
He says this one needs several hours of work.

> - newpki-client, last upload 2 years ago, 26 installs in popcon
>   
Upstream is pretty dead.  I have pinged the maintainer and he is going 
to try to contact upstream but they are pretty inactive.  He doesn't 
have time to update the package so if someone is willing..

> <snip>
> Regis
>   
Thanks,

Barry deFreese