[DRE-maint] Bug#639435: package no longer installable

[Antonio Terceiro]

Philipp Kern escreveu isso aí:
> Paul,
> 
> am Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 02:49:26PM +0000 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Philipp Kern <pkern at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Package: alexandria
> > > Version: 0.6.6-1
> > > Severity: serious
> > >
> > > ruby-gnome2 dropped some deprecated packages and hence your package is no
> > > longer installable in unstable.  The affected dependencies are libgconf2-ruby,
> > > libgnome2-ruby and libglade2-ruby.
> > 
> > Is there a suggested upgrade path, or have the libraries themselves
> > been removed and orphaned?
> > 
> > I guess, what I'm really asking is, is this an upstream issue or
> > something we can solve here in Debian?

Upstream decided that those specific subpackages are now absolete and
will not be maintained anymore, so they were dropped on Debian as well.

> I'm sadly just the messenger as I noticed that ruby-gnome2 cannot
> migrate because of this and that the packages were dropped without
> properly communicating the issue (i.e. filing bugs).

My bad, I should really have filled bugs after uploading ruby-gnome2.
Thanks Philipp for doing that.

But it is important to note that this was explicitly communicated to all
affected maintainers one month ago:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2011/07/msg00049.html

That message contained all the whats, whys and hows, but unfortunately
we only got a reply for 1 out of the 5 affected packages.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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