Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 11:14:02 CEST Andreas Metzler wrote: > > What is the recommended/appropriate way to deal with such issues? > > The agreed reached was not "let's ignore it, lintian has been warning > about it". Instead a way forward that /should/ have avoided any breakage > (versioned

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 10:54:20 CEST Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2023-08-19 10:03 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > [please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] > > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote:

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-08-19 Diederik de Haas wrote: > [please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > > > Currently,

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-08-19 10:03 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > [please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: >> > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: >> > >

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
[please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > > Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct)

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev

2023-07-17 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Sven, On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 01:13, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2023-07-16 22:38 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > > I will be removing the transitional package libfreetype6-dev (from the > > source package freetype) later this year. > > > > [snip] > > My suggestion is to drop the

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev

2023-07-17 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Simon, On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct) > > dependencies on libfreetype6-dev, which has been released with > > bullseye and bookworm. > > Lintian

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev

2023-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-07-16 22:38 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > I will be removing the transitional package libfreetype6-dev (from the > source package freetype) later this year. > > Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct) > dependencies on libfreetype6-dev, which has been released with >

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev

2023-07-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct) > dependencies on libfreetype6-dev, which has been released with > bullseye and bookworm. Lintian diagnoses this as "[build-]depends-on-obsolete-package" since 2.116.0 (MR at

Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev

2023-07-16 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi, I will be removing the transitional package libfreetype6-dev (from the source package freetype) later this year. Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct) dependencies on libfreetype6-dev, which has been released with bullseye and bookworm. I plan to file bugs with