[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#547880: libddm-1-0: depends on obsolete Mission Control 4, libempathy23

[Simon McVittie]

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Package: libddm-1-0
Version: 1.2.5-2
Severity: serious
Justification: uninstallable in unstable (now or soon, depending on arch)

libddm seems to depend on libmissioncontrol-client, and on a version of
libempathy that will no longer be available in unstable when the buildds
catch up (currently only i386 has the new version).

We also plan to remove Mission Control 4 (which provides
libmissioncontrol-client) from the archive soon. Mission Control 5 does not
provide a C library (but Empathy can interact with it directly).

Since this package appears to have been abandoned upstream, and has no reverse
dependencies and a popcon score of 1 (!), removing it from Debian would be
an easy way to solve this (less code = fewer bugs :-) If the maintainers agree
with this course of action, I'll reassign this bug to ftp.debian.org to
remove it.

Other possibilities would be to port engine-dbus/hippo-dbus-empathy.c to
work with a newer libempathy (we can help), or to turn off Empathy support in
libddm. Normally the pkg-telepathy team would consider removing Telepathy
support to be a last resort, but since libddm seems to be dead upstream and
nobody actually seems to use it, this doesn't seem like it would actually hurt
anyone...

Regards,
    Simon

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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