* Pino Toscano <p...@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