[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#917721: Any chance to get libbiod compiling again?

[Pjotr Prins]

Just so you know, libbiod does not depend on undead. We imported the
relevant sources (a small subset).

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 04:45:28PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> Am Do., 19. Sept. 2019 um 08:29 Uhr schrieb Andreas Tille
> <andreas at fam-tille.de>:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I'll have a look, maybe at the weekend. This really shouldn't be
> difficult to solve.
> 
> > > > > 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
> 
> Oh, it has more rdeps than just libbiod, in that case we probably need
> to keep it for a bit longer!
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> -- 
> I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/Don't do that just yet!
> UndeaD is stuff removed from the D standard library for projects which
> didn't go ahead with removing the deprecated stuff to depend on. Those
> projects should move away from the deprecated code ASAP, but if they
> haven't, we need undeaD for them.
> (The undead library itself doesn't receive much maintenance though,
> that is true - there is usually a reason for why some things were
> removed from the srdlib ^^)
> 
> Cheers,
>     Matthias