Your message dated Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:41:39 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1057655: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1008205,
regarding RM: gamin -- RoQA; dead upstream
to be marked as done.
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Source: gamin
Version: 0.1.10-5
Severity: important
Tags: upstream wontfix
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org, debian-h...@lists.debian.org
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs unmaintained-upstream
gamin is no longer maintained upstream, and has been moved to the Archive
namespace on GNOME's Gitlab and marked read-only:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gamin
If the Debian maintainers of gamin or the Hurd porters intend it to have
a future, then someone will need to take over as its de facto upstream
maintainer. Otherwise, dependent packages should probably move to a less
dead implementation of filesystem monitoring.
On Linux, the kernel-level file monitoring API is inotify, which can
either be used directly, via a cross-platform wrapper like GLib
(GFileMonitor), Qt (QFileSystemWatcher), libuv (uv_fs_event_t), libev
(ev_stat) and so on, or via a Linux/inotify-specific convenience API
like python3-pyinotify.
On the kFreeBSD ports, the kernel-level file monitoring API is kqueue,
which can either be used directly or via a cross-platform wrapper like
the ones mentioned for Linux.
On the Hurd port, according to #885011 there are filesystem server RPCs
available to user-space (see server/gam_hurd_mach_notify.c in gamin,
apaprently).
This report was prompted by a GLib branch that removes fam/gamin support
being merged upstream for GLib 2.73.x, which means that if Hurd users
want it to still have a GFileMonitor backend, they have approximately
6 months to provide one, either in-tree in GLib itself, or out-of-tree in
a separate source package (analogous to the way gvfs and glib-networking
provide backends for other extension points, although not GFileMonitor).
Packages that use gamin:
- apachetop
- codeblocks (codeblocks-contrib)
- courier (courier-imap)
- doodle (doodled)
- gnubiff
- glib2.0 [hurd-any only]
- libsys-gamin-perl
- and possibly some kFreeBSD- and/or Hurd-specific packages
smcv
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.1.10-6+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package gamin has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1057655
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org.
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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