Bug#981515: kcoreaddons: please replace fam with gamin
* Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org> [210201 00:28]:
> In data lunedì 1 febbraio 2021 00:00:47 CET, Chris Hofstaedtler ha scritto:
> 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
This is certainly true, but its better to ship one unmaintained
thing than two.
> - #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)
It will keep an old libfam as valid, yes. Maybe we can get that
fixed though.
> > 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.
Not for bullseye, at least not if you don't feel like it.
But now I have to ask: why not drop the fam/gamin dependency, if it
"does not get much of use these days"? For bookworm, that is.
Chris
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