[Mageia-dev] package drop request: alexandria

Sun May 8 20:10:16 CEST 2011

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+Done
+