[pkg-fso-maint] libfso-glib + fso-gsmd transition

[Niels Thykier]

On 2013-10-29 00:52, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi Niels,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:09:44PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Dear maintainers of libfso-glib and fso-gsmd,
>>
>> I have noticed that libfso-glib and fso-gsmd have started a transition
>> and they seem to have been "left to rot" in unstable.  My issue here is
>> that they are keeping at least 4 RC bug fixes out of testing at the
>> moment[1].
>>
>> The situation (as far as I can understand it) is that:
>>
>>   libfso-glib dropped libfso-glib1 in favor of libfso-glib2
> 
> Right. API/ABI has changed.
> 
>>   fso-gsmd dropped fso-gsmd-ezx, fso-gsmd-gta04, fso-gsmd-htc
>>    and fso-gsmd-openmoko
> 
> This is not completly correct. fso-gsmd just dropped useless
> architectures. These packages were arch any before, but are
> specific to the arm devices.
> 

Seems like I overlooked that part, sorry.

>> [...]
> 
> I think the correct solution is to remove fso-gsmd-ezx, fso-gsmd-gta04
> and fso-gsmd-openmoko only for the unsupported architectures. This
> should solve the problem. Still supported architectures are:
> 
> fso-gsmd-ezx => armel
> fso-gsmd-gta04 => armel, armhf
> fso-gsmd-openmoko => armel
> 
> -- Sebastian
> 

By the looks of it, you will have to file a bug report for the fso-gsmd
binaries as they do not appear in the cruft report[1].

~Niels

[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/cruft-report-daily.txt