[Pkg-e-devel] e17 is marked for autoremoval from testing

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2018-02-17 Ross Vandegrift <ross at kallisti.us> wrote:
[...]
> I've finished testing the reverse dependencies.

> For software written/distributed by EFL upstream:
> - e17
>   - fixed in experimental
> - terminology
>   - fixed in experimental
> - edbus
>   - deprecated upstream
> - elementary
>   - integrated into efl
> - evas-loaders
>   - integrated into efl

> For external reverse dependencies:
> - libdbus-c++-1-0v5
>   - 0.9.0-8.1 builds successfully
> - exactimage
>   - 1.0.1-1+b1 FTBFS: #878572, https://phab.enlightenment.org/T6247
> - intone
>   - 0.77+git20120308-1+b3 FTBFS: depends on deprecated libedbus-dev


> I think the next steps are:
> - submit a bug against release.debian.org to request a transition

yes

> - submit bugs for e17, terminology, libdbus-c++-1-0v5, intone

Bugs about what?

> - update exactimage bug #878572
> - request removal of edbus, elementary, evas-loaders

> Is that correct?

I see a blocker in the fact that efl seems to FTBFS on armhf and
ppc64el. Due to 

libecore-dev -> libdbus-c++-dev -> libffado-dev ->
                  (jack-audio-connection-kit|jackd2)

the reverse dependency tree is huge.

cu Andreas

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