[Debian GNUstep maintainers] GNUstep transition, orphaned packages, todo

[Federico Giménez Nieto]

Hi Yavor,

2014-06-12 21:09 GMT+02:00 Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org>:

[...]

Orphaned packages (again)
> -------------------------
> These packages are orphaned:
> aclock.app
> gridlock.app
> talksoup.app
> volumecontrol.app
> zipper.app
>
> I guess we'll take them under the pkg-gnustep umbrella.  VolumeControl
> has an RC bug, it has to be ported to ALSA.  Zipper and AClock have
> been adopted by the GAP folks and have new releases.  TalkSoup is
> probably broken and would need some work.
>
>
I could begin filling the ITA's for these on behalf of pkg-gnustep and
working in some of them, perhaps in the new versions of AClock and Zipper.

[...]


> We have to discuss and decide what to do with the GNUstep runtime.  It
> is a complex situation.  I don't think we can have it as an
> alternative.  We have to switch permanently (with some major tradeoffs
> like no GNUstep on many architectures) or stay with the GCC runtime.
> Perhaps it would be better to have this discussion on the upstream
> lists; discuss-gnustep seems to fit best.
>

Please, share a link to the discussion thread when it will begin.

Cheers,