Bug#885657: rarian: Don't release with Buster

[Niels Thykier]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:14:52 -0500 Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: rarian
> Version: 0.8.1-6
> Severity: serious
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs rarian
> Tags: sid buster
> 
> scrollkeeper has been deprecated and unmaintained for years. Its
> replacement, rarian has been deprecated for years too. More
> importantly, it doesn't seem to be needed at all. yelp can easily
> display Docbook help files without any .omf files.
> 
> We do not intend to ship rarian in Debian 10 "Buster".
> 
> About half the affected packages in Testing already have patches
> prepared or are trivial to fix. The remainder probably just need to
> have scrollkeeper dropped from their build systems (which might involve
> some work with autoreconf and removing old copies of autoconf macros.
> Many of the affected packages have *old* build systems.).
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-gnome-maintaine
> rs at lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=rarian
> 
> On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
> Jeremy Bicha
> 
> 

Hi,

FYI: There are still ~15-16 open bugs on the bts tagged rarian (I have
made them blockers via a separate update).  If the plan is still to
remove rarian for Buster, these bugs should be resolved before the
transition freeze (2019-01-12).

Is this still the plan?

Thanks,
~Niels