Hello Paul, thank you for the fast reply! Paul Wise a écrit : > > This package has been part of Debian woody, and removed in > > year 2009 due to lack of maintenance, see > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515284 > > Please note the additional steps needed when reintroducing packages: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#reintroducing-pkgs additional steps are: - check why the package was removed: Done. The package was removed due to a lack of maintenance, it was based on gtk1-2 libraries, and had not been ported to gtk2. Now Jean-Pierre Demailly has done the port, made a few improvements, and made the package easier for his wife's needs. - contact previous people maintaining the package: Done. Jean-Pierre Demailly has exchanged some e-mails with Barry deFreese, they agree about reviving the package. I had debianized that package in 1999, long before I became a DD; so this package was not unknown to me. - I updated the files under debian/ to use current standards (which simplify a lot the packaging task), and exchanged a few e-mails with Jean-Pierre Demailly to simplify the upstream source also: as debian rules use dh_autoreconf, many files could be removed. So I believe that geg is worth a small package. This application is quite modest, but it value/footprint ratio is great, IMHO. Best regards, Georges.
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