[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#583818: Bug#583818: haskell-gnomevfs: gnome-vfs is deprecated upstream

[Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva]

tags 583818 moreinfo
severity 583818 whishlist
thanks

Hi Emilio.

Excerpts from Emilio Pozuelo Monfort's message of Seg Mai 31 08:24:43 -0300 2010:
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> On 31/05/10 12:59, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
> > The fact that there's no package in the archive that uses it doesn't mean it
> > doesn't have any users.  Assuming there are users of this package, I think it
> > should stay until it doesn't work anymore.
> > 
> > I'll add a note in it's description telling the users that it's deprecated and
> > shouldn't be used in new packages, and that they should use GIO.  Is it good
> > enough for you?
> 
> Well, popcon is rather low[1], and keeping it only encourages its use. I'd
> rather we remove it now. If there's people using it (for private stuff I guess,
> since nothing in the archive uses it) they can build haskell-gnomevfs manually
> (as they will be building their stuff) or even better, port their code to GIO/GVFS.
> 
> I'd rather we remove it now.

I don't see bugs like these in other languages bindings:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?ordering=normal;archive=0;src=gnome-python;dist=unstable;repeatmerged=0

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=libgnomevfs2-ruby

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libgnome2-vfs-perl;dist=unstable

And not even in the C library:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?ordering=normal;archive=0;src=gnome-vfs;dist=unstable;repeatmerged=0

The C library description does not even mention that it's deprecated:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/libgnomevfs2-dev

So I don't see a reason to request its removal, or even to change it's
description, since this haven't been done anywhere else in the archive.  As you
said, this is planned to Squeeze + 1, so there's no point in removing it now.

I'm tagging it moreinfo and changing the severity to whishlist instead of
closing or wontfix, because if you can give me more arguments about why this
package should be removed I can change my mind.

Greetings.
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-- 
marcot
http://wiki.debian.org/MarcoSilva
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