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

[Antonio Terceiro]

Hi,

Paul Tagliamonte escreveu isso aí:
> > 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?

Quoting myself in the original announcement:

  For each of the dropped packages listed above, we have four options
  (ordered from the more desired alternative to the less desired one):

    0) fix the reverse dependencies, if their actual needs are satisfied by the
       remaining packages.

    1) work with upstream developers of the reverse dependencies to depend only on
       the non-deprecated bindings maintained by ruby-gnome2 upstream.

    2) package the latest source from upstream subversion repository [0]
       separately (note that those packages are officially unmaintained).

    3) remove the reverse dependencies from Debian.

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

In the case of glade, for example, Gtk::Builder can load the .glade files, so
the source must be adjusted to use that instead of the glade bindings.

Other possibility is packages depending on stuff they don't actually need, so
each package in question needs to be checked individually.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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