Am Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 04:43:12PM -0600 schrieb Bdale Garbee: > Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> writes: > > > Source: geda-gaf > > Version: 1:1.8.2-11 > > Severity: serious > > > > Your package came up as a candidate for removal from Debian: > > For the record, I've previously indicated that I consider lepton-eda a > complete replacement for geda-gaf in Debian. It was forked some years > ago, is actively maintained, and still reads existing geda-gaf designs > and library files perfectly. I contribute to lepton-eda upstream, and > actively maintain the lepton-eda package in Debian. > > I do wonder if there's some action we can/should take when removing > geda-gaf to ease the transition for existing users of the package to > lepton-eda? Perhaps replace the package content with dependency > information causing the replacement to be more or less automatic on > upgrades? [shrug]
If lepton-eda is a sufficient drop-in replacement for existing geda-gaf users, lepton could provide a geda-gaf transition package for the bookworm release? I can file a bug against lepton-eda when geda-gaf has been removed. Cheers, Moritz