[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#750910: Status of sitplus (Was: Bug#750910: sitplus: Please update to use wxwidgets3.0)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Luis,

I had another look into sitplus 1.1.0 upstream and it seems there is a
split between libsitplus and sitplus.  From the download file layout
libsitplus looks similar to our packaged sitplus 1.0.3 and the upstream
sitplus-1.1.0 has a structure which I would consider "broken"
considering that the root of the source tree is featuring only the dir
/usr.  Luis, you have spent some time into packaging sitplus but did not
responded to later pings.  It would help if you could raise your voice
about your future plans with sitplus.  If you stopped your engagement
I'm afraid we can not keep this software inside Debian which would be a
shame.

I also noticed that upstream is providing packages targeting at Squeeze
which is lagging a behind current Debian development.  Perhaps there is
some chance to join forces here with upstream to provide recent upstream
versions on recent Debian releases.  However, if nobody volunteers for
this job I would ask ftpmaster for removal from Debian since I have
neither time nor the required background to test for this package.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 02:44:39PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Olly,
> 
> thanks for spotting the new version which was hidden from our sentinel
> due to an insufficient debian/watch file.  Luis or Dmitrijs, you both
> touched the package before.  Would you volunteer to work on the new
> upstream version?  I did some minor polishing of the debian/ dir
> (including fixing the watch file) but I noticed that the upstream download
> tarball is a bit broken since it puts all stuff into a main dir /usr
> which would require to change our build system.  I wonder whether it
> might be better to repack the upstream source.
> 
> Any volunteer?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>         Andreas.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 11:00:39PM +1200, Olly Betts wrote:
> > Source: sitplus
> > Version: 1.0.3-4
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: sid jessie
> > User: freewx-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > Usertags: wx3.0
> > Control: block 748169 by -1
> > 
> > Dear maintainer,
> > 
> > We're aiming to migrate the archive to using wxwidgets3.0 instead of
> > wxwidgets2.8, and intend to drop wxwidgets2.8 before jessie is released.
> > 
> > I tried rebuilding the current sitplus package with the B-D updated, but
> > the build fails.  Looking at upstream's website, I see there's a newer
> > release 1.1.0 made 2013-04-23:
> > 
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sitplus/files/1.1.0/
> > 
> > While this release pre-dates the wx3.0.0 release, it may have fixes for
> > compatibility with wx2.9.x (the development series which lead to 3.0.0).
> > It would probably make sense to update to 1.1.0 first even if further
> > fixes are needed to work with wx3.0.
> > 
> > If you hit any problems with getting packages working with wxwidgets3.0
> > which you can't overcome, let me know and I'll try to help.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >     Olly
> > 
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