Package: gabber
Severity: serious
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:24:38 +0200
From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Goedson Teixeira Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RM: gal0.x -- RoQA; orphaned, obsolete GNOME 1 package, no
significant revdeps
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:17:43AM -0300, Goedson Teixeira Paixao wrote:
> Em Ter, 2006-10-17 às 20:14 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar escreveu:
> > And gabber... and gabber2 isn't ready yet for release. Interestingly,
> > only a build-dependency though, not a runtime dependency.
> >
> > What's with that?
>
> It's been linked statically to libgal. The previous maintainer decided
> to do this because libgal changed too fast and prevented gabber from
> entering testing and I forgot to undo this.
I see.
> The only functions it uses from libgal are
> e_utf8_{from,to}_locale_string. I think the best solution for this would
> be copying the code for these functions from libgal into gabber in order
> to upload it without this dependency. What do you think?
Surely such functionality can be achieved with glibc? Anyway, if it's
indeed only these two functions, I'll not hold off removing gal0.x over
it, and indeed a solution such as the one you suggest should be
implemented for gabber.
Thanks,
--Jeroen
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