[pkg-ggz-maintainers] Bug#651688: Bug#651688: Should ggz-server be orphaned or removed from Debian?

[Peter Eisentraut]

On sön, 2012-01-01 at 15:04 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Roger Light <roger at atchoo.org> writes:
> > I've spoken with Josef Spillner, the old GGZ project lead and we both
> > agree that the best course of action is for the GGZ packages to be
> > removed from Debian. It's not fair to leave the maintenance in the
> > hands of the distributors.
> 
> So the source packages below should be removed from Debian? (That should
> be all packages maintained by the "Debian GGZ Maintainers" currently in
> unstable.)
> 
> ggz-client-libs
> ggz-docs
> ggz-gnome-client
> ggz-grubby
> ggz-gtk-client
> ggz-gtk-games
> ggz-python
> ggz-sdl-games
> ggz-server
> ggz-txt-client
> ggz-txt-client
> ggz-utils
> libggz
> meta-ggz
> 
> It would be nice if one of the Uploaders could confirm this.

It appears that Josef is no longer active.  I was just the
sponsor/helper here, so I don't know the status of upstream etc. very
well.  At one point, these libraries had a reverse dependency into
GNOME, but I can't find it right now, so maybe it's gone.  Note that
ggz-client-libs has a very high popcon usage because of this.


If there are no reverse dependencies, I think the packages should be
removed.  If you want to do the legwork, that would be very helpful.