On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:04:09 +0100, Andreas Tscharner wrote:
On 24.01.2012 17:46, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote:
Hi,
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Fyi, wterm and fsviewer are now removed from debian unstable.
So I noticed. As I use fsviewer quite regularly, I didn't like it...
IIRC the problem was that fsviewer depends on libwraster and
libwraster is no longer used by WindowMaker so it was abandoned?
What about packaging fsviewer with libwraster?
Hi Andreas,
the problem was that the upstream developer of fsviewer (and wterm)
don't replied the mails. Is missing in action, and for this reason the
package cannot be updated. This was a problem because fsviewer requires
libwmaker0-dev, and without libwmaker0-dev the wmaker package cannot be
in testing. My idea wasn't remove the packages, but I didn't have other
option. I talked about this with two Debian Developers, and they say the
same; contact with the upstream, if he don't reply think if you want to
be the new upstream, else, create a package remove request.
There are two different options now:
1. Include the libwmaker0-dev package in the upstream of fsviewer. Then
the package libwmaker0-dev is provided by fsviewer source package.
2. Remove the libwmaker0-dev functions of fsviewer (rewrite fsviewer),
therefore the package fsviewer won't need libwmaker0-dev
In both cases, probably you will be the new upstream. I didn't have
more time for these packages (and I don't use them).
Best Regards,
kix
Best regards
Andreas
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