[Pkg-ayatana-devel] libaccounts-glib appears to be unmaintained.

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Peter,

thanks for bringing this up.

Am Samstag, 19. September 2020 schrieb peter green:
> The libaccounts-glib package does not seem to be getting maintained in Debian, it has had a rc bug (deprecated declarations
> and -Werror) for 8 months with no maintainer response and has recently picked up a second one (unversioned python removal).
> It has not had an upload for 3 years.
> 
> Both of the rc bugs have been fixed in ubuntu. The ubuntu package has a higher "upstream version" than the Debian one,
> but this does not seem to actually represent a newer version from upstream. The changes outside the Debian directory
> between the "upstream version" in Debian and the one in Ubuntu seem to be limited to a small number of changes in the
> "tests" directory (changing a timeout and removing some gitignore files) and I could not find corresponding changes
> in the upstream vcs. It seems the Debian and Ubuntu packaging diverged back in 2016.
> 
> There does seem to be activity upstream with a release 5 months ago, but neither Debian or Ubuntu seem to have packaged it.
> 
> So I started looking at the reverse dependencies to see if this was a package that was still being used and I found quite
> a bit. Looking at the first two levels I get:
> 
> direct:
> 
> ayatana-indicator-datetime
> kaccounts-integration
> kaccounts-providers
> kio-gdrive
> ktp-accounts-kcm
> libaccounts-qt
> purpose
> telepathy-accounts-signon
> 
> second levels:
> 
> ktp-common-internals (via kaccounts-integration/libaccounts-qt/telepathy-accounts-signon)
> ktp-auth-handler (via kaccounts-integration/libaccounts-qt)
> meta-kde-telepathy (via ktp-accounts-kcm)
> kaccounts-integration (via libaccounts-qt)
> akonadi (via libaccounts-qt)
> signon-ui (via libaccounts-qt)
> choqok (via purpose)
> falkon (via purpose)
> gwenview (via purpose)
> kamaso (via purpose)
> kde-spectacle (via purpose)
> kdenlive (via purpose)
> kdeplasma-addons (via purpose)
> kdevelop (via purpose)
> kphotoalbum (via purpose)
> libkf5pimcommon (via purpose)
> okular (via purpose)
> plasma-browser-integration (via purpose)
> 
> So, it doesn't look like removal is an option. Can someone (perhaps the maintainer of one of the reverse-dependencies
> take a look at getting this package back into shape?). Bringing across the fixes from the Ubuntu package looks like it
> would be fairly easy but I have no idea how to test the results.

I'll take a look. Thanks for digging into this.

Mike

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