Bug#348227: Please package python2.4-gamin

Tue Jul 18 17:29:40 UTC 2006

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:16 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:

>  We dropped all references to gamin from the GNOME packages, and we
>  would like to get rid of the gamin package altogether for various
>  reasons (mainly: not supported upstream anymore, and some bugs).
> 
>  I'm afraid you can only hope that another team (perhaps KDE) has some
>  use of gamin and wishes to maintain it.

Is FAM (or some new thing) preferred over gamin?  What do GNOME apps use
to get notifications about filesystem changes?  I'd like to migrate my
application to a better technology if there is one.

timo