[Mageia-dev] package drop request: alexandria

Sun May 8 19:58:39 CEST 2011

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Remy CLOUARD <shikamaru at mageia.org> wrote:
+> Hi,
+>
+> Could you please drop alexandria please ?
+>
+> 1) Alexandria is not maintained upstream anymore
+> http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/
+> “New features and future development are being carried out in a separate
+> project called Palatina. It’s a complete re-write, and is currently at
+> an early stage of functionality. If you’re intersted in helping the
+> project, or following it’s progress, you can subscribe to the
+> palatina-devel mailing-list or check out the wiki.”
+>
+> 2) There’s a rewrite of it, but it’s not active since last september.
+> see git clone git://code.gnostai.org/git/palatina.git
+>
+> 3) Alexandria uses ruby-libglade2, which is not part of ruby-gnome2
+> anymore since version 0.90.6 (we have 0.90.8)
+> see http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/980605
+>
+> To make a long story short, I don’t think it’s worth keeping it. We
+> would have an unmaintained software, based on unmaintained libraries, so
+> I’m in favor of dropping alexandria.
+>
+> Regards,
+
+I take care of removing it
+