Bug#785544: goocanvasmm: Build with latest goocanvas in Experimental

[Ross Gammon]

Control: severity 785544 wishlist

Hi Iain,

Thanks for responding so fast. I am expecting a similar answer from most
of the reverse dependencies based on what I saw on upstream bug trackers
etc.

On 05/19/2015 02:45 PM, Iain Lane wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 06:18:17PM +0200, Ross Gammon wrote:
>> […]
>> Are there any plans to update goocanvasmm (I have found a 1.90 version) and
>> test against the goocanvas in experimental?
> No, sorry. I originally packaged goocanvasmm so that I could package
> glom back in 2009 or so. Then this was blocked on goocanvas 1.9.0 (bug
> #588177), which was unresolved for a long time, during which I lost
> interest/motivation.
>
> I don't think anyone is working on glom atm (they would have had to try
> to update goocanvasmm and I've heard nothing about this). goocanvasmm
> has no rdeps. How about we just RM it? Someone else could bring it back
> if they need to later on.
>
> (If you agree, please reassign this to ftp.debian.org & retitle.)

Actually, it turns out there is another option. Alberto Garcia (Berto)
recommends renaming the goocanvas package to goocanvas-2.0 (which was
actually what Ubuntu did) because both libraries can live side by side.

Therefore, I am dropping this to "wishlist". Then if anyone needs a new
version of goocanvasmm, they will hopefully read this and know what to
do :-)

Regards,

Ross