Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal IMHO the time has come to remove GPE from Debian. Upstream has been dead for some time (two of these three packages have seen no upstream releases and no Debian uploads since Etch). The environment itself is aimed at a dead platform (iPAQ) and is unsuitable for use on current devices like phones or tablets without widescale modification. I've no interest in maintaining it any longer but rather than simply orphan ~60 packages, I've decided to seek removal on the basis that the orphaned environment would be unmaintainable in the long term. There is zero prospect of GPE ever being ported to GTK3.
These three packages are the top level dependencies and need to be removed together (the metapackage in gpe-conf depends on the other two which in turn depend on the binary package of gpe-conf). Once these three are removed, I'll move on to remove the applications and then the libraries. I've tried to contact the only other GPE team member to have made uploads of GPE packages to Debian, Moray, without reply so far. Moray hasn't made uploads of GPE packages for about a year now. I've already contacted Gregor regarding gpesyncd and Hector regarding tslib and each agree that GPE is End of Life. I've already orphaned tslib - it has uses outside GPE and may find a new maintainer independently. Please start the removal of GPE by removing gpe-appmgr, gpe-mininet and gpe-conf from unstable. Thanks. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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