Dear Evgeny, I strongly back your point of view.
As Neil wants a quick solution, I shall develop alternative depedencies for expeyes which currently relies on grace: it will offer the possibility to choose qtiplot. I agree with you, a user which learned to use Xmgrace will grind loads of work happily. Best regards, Georges. Evgeny Stambulchik a écrit : > Hello, > > I'm the [passive] upstream maintainer. Just to make things clear: > > 1. grace is perfectly happy using its own copy of t1lib. So you can > safely remove the t1lib debian package. > > 2. Yes, perhaps only 0.34% of all users use it. But same can be said > about 90% of the entire debian archive (for each package separately, > of course). > > 3. Yes, it is potentially buggy and insecure. But since in 99.9% you > use it within the projects you work yourself on, nothing wrong can > happen. In the worst case you loose some time. (And in my > experience, grace crashes MUCH less frequently than some > high-profile softwares which are really exposed to the Internet.) > > 4. I have no time and intention right now to switch to freetype. For > the scope it is currently used in grace, t1lib is adequate. When I > come across a bug, I fix it - that's how the bundled t1lib copy got > emerged in the first place. > > Best, > > Evgeny > > On 23/03/14 12:01, Neil Williams wrote: > >On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:01:39 +1100 > >Drew Parsons <dpars...@debian.org> wrote: > > > >>Grace is one of the most useful packages in the entire archive. > > > >... for 0.34% of users of the archive, maybe. To me, it is simply an RC > >buggy package which has had no new development upstream since 2012 and > >which depends on an obsolete, abandoned library. Unless it can be > >ported, it will need to be removed alongside t1lib. > > > >Those who care about grace need to scratch their own itch and fix it. > > > >>I am not aware of anything other package that provides the same degree > >>of functionality. > >> > >>Removing it is not a good idea. > > > >Removing it is necessary, as explained. t1lib has been superseded and > >packages which used to use it need to migrate. The other packages have > >already done so, those which fail to do so cannot be supported when the > >underlying dependency has been abandoned. > > > > > > -- Georges KHAZNADAR et Jocelyne FOURNIER 22 rue des mouettes, 59240 Dunkerque France. Téléphone +33 (0)3 28 29 17 70
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