Hello! You have written on Friday, 14 February, at 20:39:
>The new repository[1] that was supposedly fixing this bug report >doesn't even include the upstream sources (or their git history). >It's a plain packaging repo with only the debian/ directory. >I don't see how that's supposed to fulfil the need for you to >become your own uptream. You most likely want to create a fork >from the archived gnome repo[2]. Yes, I've created a fork and mentined it in in the debian/control file: Homepage: https://github.com/LStranger/gnome-system-tools I had a hope that it's enoungh. From your message it seems it's not. >Also please pick a (new) name for your fork as it's *not* THE >gnome-system-tools (anymore), unless you actually talk to the gnome >project to officially pick up as the gnome maintainer (but I suspect >at this point there's absolutely no interest from the gnome project to >have gnome-system-tools revived). >(Once a proper upstream fork exists, packaging that under the new name >and providing a transitional gnome-system-tools meta-package will give >current users a seemless upgrade experience.) I understand that it's possible but it would need creating new package and removing old one, thus involve some DD and some ftpmaster as well. I'm still just a DM so did what is available for me to do. Thank you for an advice, I'll decide how I can handle all this situation. >(Please also make sure to look into all the deprecated notices that is >being spit out during build. Those will likely become an issue in the >not too distant future. But first you might want to reconsider if you >really have the resources for taking on the task of becoming your own >upstream.) Yes, I understand all this said and, frankly speaking, I really have not enough resources to handle this whole bunch (it also includes liboobs and system-tools-backends) but unfortunately there is no another standalone GTK tool to manage users and date/time around, it was a whole reason why I've picked up this package in the first place. And as a LXDE maintainer, I cannot leave LXDE users without means to manage users and date/time. It's a pretty hard and problematic dilemma I have here, unless I start to write appropriate tools from scratch by myself but that would take a lot of time as well and this is also a problem. Well, as for LXDE I hope to handle date/time management by the panel indicator later (and actually it is almost never required as most of decent systems does not need manual managing due to NTP in action) but users still cannot be handled without this package. So in short, if I found some standalone tool to manage users then I would be very glad to get rid of these three packages. With best regards, Andriy.
