[Mageia-dev] package drop request: alexandria

Sun May 8 23:49:26 CEST 2011

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:10:16PM +0200, Dexter Morgan wrote:
+> 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
+
+Thanks :-)
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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