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

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> wrote:
> 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

I missed that, sorry. Looks like I was CC'd. Guess it's on me. Thanks
for the heads up.

What's the plan for these packages? Straight removal? Communicate with
upstream to try to re-implement using a different library?

Are there any similar libraries that could be used for a fork if
upstream's unwilling or inactive?

>
> 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>
>

Thanks for the RE :)
Paul

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