Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 06:40:32PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> søn, 30.05.2004 kl. 13.37 skrev Guus Sliepen:
> > I am planning to upload libgmime2 with just the Maintainer: field
> > changed, and a new libgmime2.1 package. However, there are also packages
> > in unstable for libgmime0 and libgmime1. As far as apt-cache rdepends
> > can tell me, there are no Debian packages depending on them, so I'm
> > inclined to send an email to ftp-master to have them removed. However,
> > if you know that there still are people using those Debian packages,
> > I'll continue maintaining them.
>
> I have no idea. Like you, anyone using this library is apparently doing
> it for their own projects, not for Debian. But if you want my opinion,
> you can almost certainly remove libgmime0. However, I wouldn't want to
> remove libgmime1 yet - at least not before sarge is released (with it),
> in any case, and maybe not even before people start thinking about
> removing libglib1.2 itself from Debian. It's difficult to be sure
> without user feedback, for sure. Maybe not even http//popcon.debian.org/
> (seems to down at the moment) would help much here...
ftp-master: please remove libgmime0 and libgmime0-dev from unstable.
Ove: there is an FTBFS bug filed against gmime1 (#306610). If you don't
want to maintain this package anymore, please ask the ftp-masters to
remove gmime1 as well.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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