On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 September 2017 at 22:44, R0b0t1 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Complex build system, hard to maintain, no dependencies in tree, upstream >> > does not cooperate (Bug#630420). >> > Removal in 30 days. >> > >> >> I don't have any reason to disagree with this but I expected a >> citation for those things to be in the bug you referenced. They're >> not, and I don't see any bugs on the tracker. > > The effort of upgrade per each version is becoming greater. > Previous and next versions required significant work, issues reported > to upstream with the hope of a change, but most is rejected. > The build system is so complex that is specific to gcc/ld and > hard-coded dependencies locations and cflags/ldflags magic. > Unless we have a very good reason (important dependency), my > suggestion is to drop it. > Do we have such a reason? >
I don't think so. That is a very good description of a valid reason.
