Bug#885657: rarian: Don't release with Buster
Hi, On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 09:44:39AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 2:54 AM Niels Thykier wrote: > > FYI: There are still ~15-16 open bugs on the bts tagged rarian (I have > > made them blockers via a separate update). If the plan is still to > > remove rarian for Buster, these bugs should be resolved before the > > transition freeze (2019-01-12). > > Thanks for the reminder. We basically just need someone to write the > patches for this packages (several of the remaining packages need > their buildsystem modified a bit). > > I don't think anyone has worked on this recently so it might not get > done in time for Buster, but it's still an achievable goal now. Most of the blocking bugs are currently 'important'. If you want to get this done for buster, it's probably a good idea to upgrade them to serious. Looking at the rdeps, the main blocker is synaptic. If you can get a fix for that one, the rest can probably be (auto-) removed if really necessary. Ivo
Bug#885657: rarian: Don't release with Buster
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 2:54 AM Niels Thykier wrote: > FYI: There are still ~15-16 open bugs on the bts tagged rarian (I have > made them blockers via a separate update). If the plan is still to > remove rarian for Buster, these bugs should be resolved before the > transition freeze (2019-01-12). Thanks for the reminder. We basically just need someone to write the patches for this packages (several of the remaining packages need their buildsystem modified a bit). I don't think anyone has worked on this recently so it might not get done in time for Buster, but it's still an achievable goal now. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
Bug#885657: rarian: Don't release with Buster
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:14:52 -0500 Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Source: rarian > Version: 0.8.1-6 > Severity: serious > User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: oldlibs rarian > Tags: sid buster > > scrollkeeper has been deprecated and unmaintained for years. Its > replacement, rarian has been deprecated for years too. More > importantly, it doesn't seem to be needed at all. yelp can easily > display Docbook help files without any .omf files. > > We do not intend to ship rarian in Debian 10 "Buster". > > About half the affected packages in Testing already have patches > prepared or are trivial to fix. The remainder probably just need to > have scrollkeeper dropped from their build systems (which might involve > some work with autoreconf and removing old copies of autoconf macros. > Many of the affected packages have *old* build systems.). > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-gnome-maintaine > r...@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=rarian > > On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, > Jeremy Bicha > > Hi, FYI: There are still ~15-16 open bugs on the bts tagged rarian (I have made them blockers via a separate update). If the plan is still to remove rarian for Buster, these bugs should be resolved before the transition freeze (2019-01-12). Is this still the plan? Thanks, ~Niels
Bug#885657: rarian: Don't release with Buster
Source: rarian Version: 0.8.1-6 Severity: serious User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs rarian Tags: sid buster scrollkeeper has been deprecated and unmaintained for years. Its replacement, rarian has been deprecated for years too. More importantly, it doesn't seem to be needed at all. yelp can easily display Docbook help files without any .omf files. We do not intend to ship rarian in Debian 10 "Buster". About half the affected packages in Testing already have patches prepared or are trivial to fix. The remainder probably just need to have scrollkeeper dropped from their build systems (which might involve some work with autoreconf and removing old copies of autoconf macros. Many of the affected packages have *old* build systems.). https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-gnome-maintaine r...@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=rarian On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, Jeremy Bicha
