Bug#895247: libgnomecanvas: Intent to Adopt

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 at 18:09:32 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If, having considered that, you still want to adopt these
> libraries, I don't think anyone will stop you.

Hi Adrian,
Do you still intend to take over maintenance of libgnomecanvas? If you
do, please prepare an upload fixing #887868, setting yourself as Maintainer,
removing the GNOME team and making their descriptions indicate that this
library is deprecated/dead upstream.

> Do you (either or both of you) also intend to adopt the language bindings
> src:libgnomecanvasmm2.6 (in theory currently maintained by Deng Xiyue,
> most recent maintainer upload 2009)?

If you also intend to adopt that language binding, then I think you
should go ahead: Deng Xiyue last touched it in 2009, so I think I can say
on behalf of the GNOME team that it might as well be considered orphaned.
Its reverse dependencies are flowcanvas, ladish and monster-masher.
It would make sense for libgnomecanvas and libgnomecanvasmm2.6 to have
the same maintainer IMO.

> libgnomecanvas
> and libgnomecanvasmm2.6 seem to have failed their automatic conversion
> from svn (there are repositories in /git/pkg-gnome on Alioth but they are
> empty); I think I still have the right incantations in my shell history
> on alioth to do a fallback conversion with git-svn, if that would be
> helpful to you.

Alioth has now gone away, but I can try to dig out these packages from
https://alioth-archive.debian.org/svn/pkg-gnome.tar.xz if you would find
that helpful.

Thanks,
    smcv