Bug#1038809: doodle: Depends on unmaintained gamin

2023-06-24 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 6/24/23 19:30, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 6/24/23 19:03, Christian Grothoff wrote: Do we know if there is anything else that replaces libgamin in terms of functionality? it's seems gamin has been abandoned quite some time ago already in favour of using inotify. maybe using libinotify from

Bug#1038809: doodle: Depends on unmaintained gamin

2023-06-24 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 6/24/23 19:03, Christian Grothoff wrote: > Do we know if there is anything else that replaces > libgamin in terms of functionality? it's seems gamin has been abandoned quite some time ago already in favour of using inotify. maybe using libinotify from

Bug#1038809: doodle: Depends on unmaintained gamin

2023-06-24 Thread Christian Grothoff
Ah, it's the replacement for libfam, which is why the code only has libfam. Makes sense. Do we know if there is anything else that replaces libgamin in terms of functionality? If not, you could of course simply ship doodle without doodled, but I would try to keep it working if someone can

Bug#1038809: doodle: Depends on unmaintained gamin

2023-06-24 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 6/24/23 18:37, Daniel Baumann wrote: > removed now, so nevermind, thanks, and sorry for the noise. sorry, I wrote that while the package was still building. without libgamin-dev (containing libfam.so), there's no doodled then. so now we now :) Regards, Daniel

Bug#1038809: doodle: Depends on unmaintained gamin

2023-06-24 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 6/24/23 16:10, Christian Grothoff wrote: > I'm a bit confused where the build-depends comes from confusing indeed - it seems it has creeped in in 2007 (probably from the 'fam' removal at that time) and has never been questioned ever since. removed now, so nevermind, thanks, and sorry for the

Bug#1038809: doodle: Depends on unmaintained gamin

2023-06-24 Thread Christian Grothoff
Hi Daniel, I'm a bit confused where the build-depends comes from, as I don't even know what gamin *is* or how doodle would come to depend upon it. Do you have any idea _why_ we build-depend on it? I'm happy to fix the dependency, but first I'd need to know where it comes from... Best,

Bug#1038809: doodle: Depends on unmaintained gamin

2023-06-24 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi Christian, On 6/21/23 18:05, Simon McVittie wrote: > This package has a Depends or Build-Depends on gamin, which is unmaintained > upstream (see #1008205). > > The Linux kernel's inotify interface is a good replacement. > > We shouldn't really be shipping gamin in Debian 13, so this is

Bug#1038809: doodle: Depends on unmaintained gamin

2023-06-21 Thread Simon McVittie
Source: doodle Severity: important Tags: trixie sid User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs Control: block 1008205 by -1 This package has a Depends or Build-Depends on gamin, which is unmaintained upstream (see #1008205). The Linux kernel's inotify interface is a