Hi, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > Aptitude-curses has a unique place in this environment. However, it > > has proven difficult to translate this to Qt and GTK+ interfaces and > > keep everything in sync between them. It might be time to simply > > delegate the -qt and -gtk interfaces to the archives. > > After thinking a bit more about this, I would prefer just to ship -gtk > (not sure if -qt is in even more "basic" state) until freeze,
I'd disable building the package (and only that) now without removing any code. I suspect that this will get some more attention than just a NEWS entry (which should be done anyway). > adding a piece of NEWS about the future removal, You mean writing the NEWS entry "now", before removal time, I guess. IMHO the NEWS entry in the package should correspond to things changed in the given version, so I'm not sure if that's the ideal way. I think it's doable, though. I'd also make a blog posting on Planet Debian (can do that) and a maybe also a mailing list posting [email protected] at that point (can do that, too). > then remove it if nothing happens Do you think of removing the code or just of no more building the package? > so it doesn't enter the next stable relase. Hmmm, I'm slightly undecided what would be better: Shortly before the freeze or as much before the freeze as possible (i.e. now). Since just disabling building the package is easily revertable (just has to go through NEW once), I think the earlier removal is the better way, as we then have more time to re-add it. (Despite I'm not very convinced that this will happen soon.) The opinion on #debian-release on IRC also seems to be to no more build it rather now than later. > This way it would give an opportunity for a few more months for people > to step up without requiring more effort, and if not picked up by > somebody, just "move it to archives". *nod* > So basically, I don't think that we need to spend more time/effort > with this, *nod* > splitting in different source packages and so on. ... only if someone wants to maintain it, yes. > We can give it a last chance, but if it's going to survive, somebody > will have to step up to do the major up-lifting. Exactly. > In that case, the source-split is not very significant amount of > work compared to the rest. I fear so, yes. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
