[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#927166: Any chance to get libbiod compiling again?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Matthias,

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:49:54AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> > As I told you before:  I have no idea about meson.  It would be great if
> > we could get it working but if we restrict the package to those
> > architectures where it builds out of the box and save some manpower I
> > bet the world will keep on turning round.
> 
> It's not just that. Also the build needs to be changed to respect
> Debian's compile flags, build a shared library and write a pkg-config
> file. All doable with Makefiles, but not really much fun. At that
> point just using Meson becomes easier.
> The package is team-maintained, right? In that case I may just give
> this a shot this weekend and get the biod package to build again. It
> shouldn't actually by hard to do at all (famous last words.... :P)

Its team maintained and you are member of the team.  Just push whatever
you consider sensible.
 
> > > Btw, if libundead has no users anymore, removing it completely may be
> > > a good idea - we don't need to maintain something that's dead and has
> > > no users.
> >
> > I was about to file a removal request to ftpmaster before you said in
> > your last mail that the former build issue might have been caused due
> > to the lack of libundead.  I would really love to get rid of unneeded
> > packages.
> 
> Better check for reverse dependencies, but if there are none, I don't
> see a need to keep it.

$ apt-cache rdepends libundead0
libundead0
Reverse Depends:
  libundead-dev
  sambamba
  libundead-dev
  libbiod0

> Undead is basically deprecated & removed D
> stdlib modules with zero or very little maintenance, so generally
> something a project wants to get rid of rather quickly anyway, and
> quite likely nothing worth keeping in Debian on its own.

So I'll ask for removal since if I understood you correctly it will
go away from both projects above.

Thanks a lot for your help

    Andreas. 

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