Hello, I'd like to suggest removing the package "gtkrsync" from karmic. Gtkrsync is a graphical frontend to rsync, but requires rsync <= 2.6 to work. Since the upgrade of rsync to 3.0 with intrepid (or hardy-backports), gtkrsync is broken. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtkrsync/+bug/297183
I have also contacted the original maintainer of gtkrsync one month ago, but got no reply. I took a look at the sources to see if this is easy to fix, but gtkrsync is written in Haskell, and I have absolutely no knowledge of Haskell. I have already seen several packages in jaunty which do not work any more because the software they depend on has changed version. Among them are at least mail-notification-evolution (compiled for Evo 2.24 while Evo 2.26 is in jaunty) and openoffice.org-wiki-publisher (is for OOo 2.4 while OOo 3.0 is in jaunty), and I think this is really ugly. I think we should at least remove such packages if they cannot be fixed. As we cannot remove gtkrsync from intrepid or jaunty, would it be possible to upload a package which depends on rsync <= 2.6, making the package effectively uninstallable? Bye, Andreas -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
