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Bug#981515: kcoreaddons: please replace fam with gamin



In data lunedì 1 febbraio 2021 00:00:47 CET, Chris Hofstaedtler ha scritto:
> Source: kcoreaddons
> Version: 5.54.0-1
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> your package currently Depends on libfam0 (fam), which has
> been requested to be removed in #966273. Please switch to gamin
> instead. You can find more info, and an analysis of what probably
> needs to be done for your package in this message from Glenn Strauss:
>     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966273#15

I wouldn't say that gamin is more maintained than FAM:
- on the upstream side (gnome.org), it was moved the "Archive" section
  of the gnome gitlab
- during the migration to gitlab, all the bugzilla tickets were closed
  instead of migrated too, because the project is archived
- on the Debian side, gamin saw 4 uploads (one of them is an NMU) in
  the last 10 years
- #510368 prevents to switch from FAM to gamin, as it will build against
  libgamin but still pulling libfam (or keep an old libfam as valid
  package satisfying the dependency)

> Severity of this bug will probably raise over time.

What is "over time" implying, please? I really hope this is not for
bullseye: we are so close to its freeze, and these FAM/gamin bits do
not get much of use these days, so the risk of release regressions seems
medium/high to me.

-- 
Pino Toscano

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