removing swfdec from testing (gnome depends on it)
Hi!
I'm the maintainer of swfdec and I'd like to have swfdec packages removed
from squeeze as upstream is no longer developping it, the problem here is
that gnome-desktop-environment is depending on swfdec-gnome, thus if we
remove swfdec we'll need to change the dependencies of
gnome-desktop-environment or otherwise gnome will loose some of its
packages.
I mailed pkg-gnome-maintainers about this on the 7th Feb but I still haven't
had any reply about this, so my question is... what should I do now?
What follows is the message I sent to the gnome guys and to the maintainer
of gnash which is the other free alternative to swfdec.
Regards.
----- Forwarded message from Santiago Garcia Mantinan <manty@debian.org> -----
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 01:10:26 +0100
From: Santiago Garcia Mantinan <manty@debian.org>
To: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Cc: little_miry@yahoo.es
Subject: what to do with swfdec and thus swfdec-gnome on Debian
Hi!
Last year I spoke to the main developer of swfdec because people were asking
for new features filling bugs on the packages, most asking for me to package
the unstable version, and upstream hadn't released any version, stable or
unstable. He told me that he had stopped working on swfdec and he had
focused on other things.
Since then things haven't changed, nobody has picked up on swfdec
development, so I'd say that the project is dead upstream, and I'd say that
we should remove it from our next version, but I'd like to comment it with
you as you have gnome-desktop-environment depending on it.
I'm also CCing Miriam, the maintainer of gnash, wich is the other free flash
player we have around, to see how we could ease a transition from swfdec to
gnash if we feel this is needed, I think it would be a good thing to do.
Miriam, I have tried a couple of times to mail you about this, but I didn't
get a reply back, I don't know if you have been busy or if ther is any
filter dropping mails around :-?
Regards....
--
Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
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