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

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 31/05/10 15:08, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
> I don't see bugs like these in other languages bindings:

Yes, because I didn't have the time to report them yet. I reported the
haskell-gnomevfs one because I saw the ITP and there were no (build-)rdepends.

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

This one has more than one hundred rdepends. I'll need to check how many import
gnomevfs.

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

I've just reported a bug for it.

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

This one has a few rdepends, but I'll look at it.

> 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

I maintain it. No need to report an RM bug for it until we get rid of all the
rdepends.

> The C library description does not even mention that it's deprecated:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/libgnomevfs2-dev

I've just moved it to oldlibs. Will be part of the next upload.

> 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.

Removing a library with hundreds of rdepends is not easily done. I said the
removal of gnome-vfs would probably happen by Squeeze + 1 (if not later), but
there's no reason to not start working on it *now*. Otherwise we won't be able
to remove it until Squeeze + 2...