Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-05-16 Thread Gert Wollny
Am Sonntag, den 13.05.2018, 15:18 -0400 schrieb Jeremy Bicha: > Respectfully, you are the only one complaining about gconf's > removal. I might not have been complaining here, but I'm also not that happy about some removals, and I don't understand the resistance to let someone adopt the package.

Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-05-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:47:41PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> Why? Basically there are only two things left in Buster that depend on >> gconf: eclipse and pulseaudio. > > Plus ~ 50 more in unstable. > >> Please be more

Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-05-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:47:41PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Sorry for not replying more promptly. > > > I hereby declare my intent to adopt gconf. > > Why? Basically there are only two things left in Buster that depend

Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-04-30 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: Sorry for not replying more promptly. > I hereby declare my intent to adopt gconf. Why? Basically there are only two things left in Buster that depend on gconf: eclipse and pulseaudio. pulseaudio is being worked on upstream so

Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-04-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 at 23:12:44 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 04:12:47PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > - src:orbit2 (orphaned library needed by gconf) > > - src:libidl (orphaned library needed by orbit2) > > Where does gconf depend on these? I thought it did, but that

Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-04-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 04:12:47PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > (I don't speak for the GNOME team, or for Josselin, who is officially > this package's maintainer; please don't assume I do.) > > On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 at 22:19:43 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > I hereby declare my intent to adopt

Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-04-09 Thread Simon McVittie
(I don't speak for the GNOME team, or for Josselin, who is officially this package's maintainer; please don't assume I do.) On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 at 22:19:43 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I hereby declare my intent to adopt gconf. Thank you for offering to take over this package. Do you also intend

Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
Source: gconf Version: 3.2.6-4.1 Severity: serious I hereby declare my intent to adopt gconf. It is not a good service to our users to rip gconf support out of many packages for buster. This is about keeping software that is long dead upstream but has reverse dependencies longer on life