Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:56:58AM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: >> Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Unstable now has GOffice 0.10, but nip2 won't build with it; so it's one >> > of the packages that will keep the old GOffice library packages around >> > until it's fixed or removed. The Debian package is a bit behind >> > upstream (7.30.x), but current upstream git doesn't appear to support >> > GOffice 0.10 either. Perhaps you could nudge upstream to add >> > appropriate support? >> >> I have nudged upstream. >> >> vips and nip2 are behind in unstable because I have generally kept a >> policy of not uploading new versions during a freeze. > > While I think this is in general a sensible policy, I think a > superseding concern is that unstable should remain consistent if > possible. Since goffice 0.10 is now in unstable and it's probably too > late to back it out now, it seems to me that new upstream versions of > reverse-dependencies need to be uploaded where necessary.
Response from upstream: ---------- Unfortunately nip2 will be stuck on goffice-0.8 for a while: it's the last goffice that works with gtk2 programs. I hope I have that correct. I do hope to rewrite nip2 for gtk3 at some point, but the vips rewrite needs to be done first. Perhaps in a year or two. ---------- Other options have been suggested such as dumping goffice in favor of some other alternatives. As far as nip2 in debian is concerned, if we decide that what goffice adds to nip2, I can drop the dependency since nip2 will still work without it. I don't really like that option though. From upstream: ---------- goffice is used for graphing. For example, click Histogram / New / Tone Curve, then drag "shadow adjust". Or load an image, open an image view window, hold CTRL and drag up and left to mark a line, then click Histogram / Plot Slice. You can drag the line and the plot will animate. ---------- Anyway, if upstream's timeframe is as stated, it will still happen before jesse. In light of the fact that there is no good way for me to get rid of the nip2 dependency on goffice-0.8, I will probably not upload a new version until wheezy is released unless I am told to drop the goffice dependency entirely. -- Jay Berkenbilt <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
