[Mageia-dev] Pino

[Florian Hubold]

Am 03.12.2011 10:03, schrieb Oliver Burger:
> 2011/12/3 Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia at gmx.com>:
>> Pino may be dead or dieing, but it is still a very popular client for
>> Identi.ca. I find it a very good client, as a result I strongly believe > that it should definitely stay in the repos for Mageia 2.
>>
>> If Pino is no longer made I think it would be good for many distros > to still provide it in their repos for at least another year
>>
>> Also looking at things from a user point of view, I think that many > computer users don't mind using old software that is no longer
>> maintained as long as they can still use it for it's intended
>> purpose. I think that for myself and
>> many other people that use Identi.ca  Pino is an example of this.
>>
>> Unfortunately at the moment though in my install of Mageia 2 Alpha 1 with
>> the latest updates, I can't install Pino using RPMdrake, because:
>>
>> Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:
>>
>> - pino-0.2.11-1.mga1.i586 (due to unsatisfied libnotify.so.1)
>>
> The problem in this case is: pino isn't working anymore with the newer
> libraries included in Mageia.
> It can't be built against those libraries and with no upstream to fix
> that, one of our packagers would have to take over the de facto
> development.
> Also there are alternatives in the repo, aren't there?
Seconding that!
Also users may use old versions of software, but from a quality
assurance and security point of view, Mageia as a distribution
should not encourage such practics. Think about security fixes,
or potential bugs. Who will fix them if upstream doesn't?
>> As for other clients that could be provided in the repos there's Gwibber and
>> Hotot and so on.
> gwibber is in the repos, about others I don't know. I don't use that
> stuff. But you can always file a rpm request on our bugzilla.
>
> Oliver
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