Andreas Heinlein schrieb: > 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 > I have to reply to myself; I got no answers to this. I am unsure whether that means nobody cares, nobody objects or whatever. What would be the procedure to get a decision whether to remove gtkrsync from karmic or not?
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