Bug#751241: [Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#751241: amule: Please update to use wxwidgets3.0

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 01:29:19PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Olly Betts  wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 03:37:45PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote:
> >> There are just no new features to do, that would need a new release and for
> >> now it's more a state of waiting.
> >
> > A new release could fix bugs even if there are no features to do (the BTS
> > suggests there are a number of bugs).
> >
> > There's also updating it to work with newer releases of its dependencies
> > (not just wxWidgets, though that is a current case in point).
> 
> I'm trying a Git snapshot (from commit 1a369e47, currently HEAD) as
> just cherrypicking the commit that should fix compatibility with 3.0
> is entangled with previous commits. dunno how long it will take and/or
> if it will be successful, but no amule in next stable will be a shame
> :)

It's been a year, what's the status? Shall we go ahead with the removal
of amule from sid now?

Cheers,
Moritz

Bug#751241: [Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#751241: amule: Please update to use wxwidgets3.0

[Sandro Tosi]

> It's been a year, what's the status?

the status is that amule is not fully ported to wx3.0, that snapshot
fails to work correctly, and upstream is not rushing to migrate.

> Shall we go ahead with the removal
> of amule from sid now?

>From my POV is early/extreme.

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Bug#751241: [Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#751241: amule: Please update to use wxwidgets3.0

[Sandro Tosi]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Olly Betts o...@survex.com wrote:
 On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 03:37:45PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote:
 There are just no new features to do, that would need a new release and for
 now it's more a state of waiting.

 A new release could fix bugs even if there are no features to do (the BTS
 suggests there are a number of bugs).

 There's also updating it to work with newer releases of its dependencies
 (not just wxWidgets, though that is a current case in point).

I'm trying a Git snapshot (from commit 1a369e47, currently HEAD) as
just cherrypicking the commit that should fix compatibility with 3.0
is entangled with previous commits. dunno how long it will take and/or
if it will be successful, but no amule in next stable will be a shame
:)

Regards,
Sandro


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Bug#751241: [Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#751241: amule: Please update to use wxwidgets3.0

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Olly,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Olly Betts o...@survex.com wrote:
 On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:46:49PM +1200, Olly Betts wrote:
 Do you know what plans amule upstream have for wx3.0 support?  I've
 tried to check their website, but it just gives a page saying the
 site is down due to server migration, with a link to the downloads
 page, and another to a forum which is 404.

 I had a look in the wayback machine, and it's been like that since
 September 2012!

 https://web.archive.org/web/20120919013043/http://www.amule.org/

yeah I know, they simply suggest to go to a forum website to talk
about amule. I already made a lot of complains about that, even
proposed to migrate to Google Code volunteering for the migration -
but they just simply refuse any such help and ignore any complains
about a missing website for such a long time :(

 And the last release looks like it was made 2011-11-11 - the two
 together make me wonder if amule is in fact dead upstream.

well they are available thru such forum, but they don't seem to do
much development work there.

 If so, is it worth trying to keep it in Debian?  To do so, you're
 essentially going to need to take over the work upstream would
 normally do...

Amule - as is in Debian - works without any problem: it connects to
KAD and emule servers network, downloads/uploads correctly and so on,
so even if upstream is not present at teh moment the project per see
has still a lot of usefulness in Debian; but I don't plan to do any
development work on it, I'll just keep packaging it and maintain such
package - that's all. ah sure patches are welcome :D

Cheers,
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