On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On behalf of the QA group, I have been looking at packages which are blocking the removal of libraries currently in the section oldlibs, and paul is one of them, depending on imlib. With the aim of fixing as many of the depending as possible to pave the way for gradual removal of imlib, I would request you to consider moving to imlib2.
As far as I know there is no easy upgrade path from imlib to imlib2 (please correct me if I'm wrong). Because this would require massive code changes and testing for a so far working program I see no reason for a bug of severity "normal" and would like to decrease severity to "wishlist". Patches are very welcome but I'm currently working on more pressing things than this. If removal of imlib1 would be a release goal I would rather think about removal of paul than invest the needed amount of time into a low popcon package. This does in no way disregard your QA work and in principle I agree that keeping old libraries is a security risk - but you always have to find a reasonable ballance between effort and effect for whole Debian. BTW, it would be sane to announce such kind of mass bug filing on debian-devel ... Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]