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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