[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1008700: Bug#1008700: Should geda-gaf be removed?

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Am Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 04:43:12PM -0600 schrieb Bdale Garbee:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Source: geda-gaf
> > Version: 1:1.8.2-11
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > Your package came up as a candidate for removal from Debian:
> 
> For the record, I've previously indicated that I consider lepton-eda a
> complete replacement for geda-gaf in Debian.  It was forked some years
> ago, is actively maintained, and still reads existing geda-gaf designs
> and library files perfectly.  I contribute to lepton-eda upstream, and
> actively maintain the lepton-eda package in Debian.
> 
> I do wonder if there's some action we can/should take when removing
> geda-gaf to ease the transition for existing users of the package to
> lepton-eda?  Perhaps replace the package content with dependency
> information causing the replacement to be more or less automatic on
> upgrades?  [shrug]

If lepton-eda is a sufficient drop-in replacement for existing geda-gaf
users, lepton could provide a geda-gaf transition package for the bookworm
release? I can file a bug against lepton-eda when geda-gaf has been removed.

Cheers,
        Moritz