On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 at 18:09:32 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > If, having considered that, you still want to adopt these > libraries, I don't think anyone will stop you.
Hi Adrian, Do you still intend to take over maintenance of libgnomecanvas? If you do, please prepare an upload fixing #887868, setting yourself as Maintainer, removing the GNOME team and making their descriptions indicate that this library is deprecated/dead upstream. > Do you (either or both of you) also intend to adopt the language bindings > src:libgnomecanvasmm2.6 (in theory currently maintained by Deng Xiyue, > most recent maintainer upload 2009)? If you also intend to adopt that language binding, then I think you should go ahead: Deng Xiyue last touched it in 2009, so I think I can say on behalf of the GNOME team that it might as well be considered orphaned. Its reverse dependencies are flowcanvas, ladish and monster-masher. It would make sense for libgnomecanvas and libgnomecanvasmm2.6 to have the same maintainer IMO. > libgnomecanvas > and libgnomecanvasmm2.6 seem to have failed their automatic conversion > from svn (there are repositories in /git/pkg-gnome on Alioth but they are > empty); I think I still have the right incantations in my shell history > on alioth to do a fallback conversion with git-svn, if that would be > helpful to you. Alioth has now gone away, but I can try to dig out these packages from https://alioth-archive.debian.org/svn/pkg-gnome.tar.xz if you would find that helpful. Thanks, smcv