[Pkg-octave-devel] RFS: lesstif2

Wed Nov 11 09:44:29 UTC 2009

Hi Debian package maintainers,

I write you this mail because your packages either depend directly or
indirectly on lesstif2 [0]. I recently became co-maintainer of lesstif2,
with also upstream commit rights, but it turned out that the usual
sponsors of Debian packages are not interested in helping lesstif2 to
get into a (maybe slightly) better state. On the mentors mail list it
has been even suggested to have lesstif removed from Debian [1], so some
activity on this package might help keeping it in. As a last attempt
from my side, I am seeking a sponsor for lesstif from the people that
depend on it for their packages. The alternative question would be if
your package would think about moving to an other windowing/widget/ui
toolkit?

I am looking for a thorough check of my packaging and preferably a
sponsor for the new version 1:0.95.2-1. The new upstream version is only
the incorporation of a lot of patches already incorporated in the
current version of lesstif2 in Debian. The packaging has been updated as
well (changelog at the bottom of this mail [4]).

Lesstif2 has been moved to collab-maint [2], because the original
maintainer, Sam Hocevar, agreed that I could co-maintain lesstif2 with
him. However, Sam Hocevar, hasn't responded to my last e-mails about
checking the packaging and uploading (his priorities seem to have moved
on from lesstif). I build the package and uploaded to m.d.n [3]. I would
appreciate comments.

lesstif2 builds these binary packages:
lesstif-bin - user binaries for LessTif
lesstif-doc - documentation for LessTif
lesstif2   - OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
lesstif2-dbg - lesstif2 debugging files
lesstif2-dev - development library and header files for LessTif 2.1

The upload would fix this bug: 409093

With kind regards
Paul
PS: If your package is considering moving away from lesstif, I would
like to know as well. If there is no-one interested in helping lesstif,
I think it is indeed best to have it *decently* removed.

[0] LessTif, made by the Hungry Programmers, is a free (LGPL-ed) version
of OSF/Motif; it aims ultimately at binary compatibility with Motif 2.1.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/11/msg00079.html

[2] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/lesstif2/

[3] The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lesstif2
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lesstif2/lesstif2_0.95.2-1.dsc

[4]
lesstif2 (1:0.95.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [Sam Hocevar]
  * Acknowledging past NMUs. Thanks to Aaron M. Ucko and Paul Gevers, who
    now co-maintains this package (Closes: #396199, #479779, #503361,
#314440,
    Closes: #43640, #87745, #356017, #496081, #330057, #439186).
  * debian/control:
    + Add Paul Gevers to the uploaders list.
    + Update Vcs fields.

  [Paul Gevers]
  * New upstream release (dropping deprecated patches)
    - 020_bad_integer_cast.diff (solved upstream)
    - 020_unsigned_int.diff (included upstream)
    - 021_xim_chained_list_crash.diff (included upstream)
    - 031_fix_inverted_scrollwheel.diff (included upstream)
    - 031_shutup_xtungrabbutton.diff (included upstream)
    - 040_fedora_accelkeys.diff (included upstream)
    - 040_fedora_c++fix.diff (included upstream)
    - 040_fedora_text.diff (included upstream)
    - 050_cvs_invalid_pointer.diff (was from upstream)
    - 050_cvs_1773603_invalid_pointer_TextOut.c.diff (was from upstream)
    - 050_cvs_1773603_invalid_pointer_List.c.diff (was from upstream)
    - 050_cvs_1773603_invalid_pointer_Label.c.diff (was from upstream)
    - 050_cvs_1773603_invalid_pointer_LabelG.c.diff (was from upstream)
    - 050_cvs_class_initialize_DialogS.c.diff (was from upstream)
    - 050_cvs_attachbottom_Form.c.diff (was from upstream)
    - 060_update_manpages (included upstream)
    - 071_fix_crash_on_ESC_Traversal.c (included upstream)
    Remaining patches (updated descriptions, conform current DEP3
    proposal):
    - 000_bootstrap_script.diff (updated, in sync with upstream CVSMake)
    - 000_libtool_linking.diff (leave as is, debian specific, path)
    - 010_rebootstrap (updated, see also 000_bootstrap_script.diff)
    - 020_missing_xm_h.diff (not included upstream yet)
    - 020_render_table_crash.diff (in upstream cvs)
    - 020_xpmpipethrough.diff (not included upstream yet)
    - 030_manpage.diff (not included upstream, debian specific, path)
    - 031_use_X11_Xtos_header.diff (in upstream cvs)
    - 040_fedora_XxxxProperty-64bit.diff updated to prevent segfault on
      i386 when copy/pasting. Updated with courtesy from Hans de Goede
      (Fedora) (in upstream cvs)
    - 080_fix_spelling-error-in-binary (not included upstream yet,
      updated)
    Added patches
    - 030_manpage_Virtualbindings to fix manpage-section-mismatch
      (lintian)
    - 005_libtool_LT_HAVE.diff to fix a libtool error:
      possibly undefined macro: LT_HAVE_FREETYPE and LT_HAVE_XRENDER
    - 005_libtool_obsolete.diff to fix autoconf warnings about obsolete
      MACRO's.
    - 040_fedora_PutPixel32.diff fixes PutPixel32 crashing on 64 bit
      completly, with courtesy from Hans de Goede (Fedora)
      (Closes: #409093) (in upstream cvs)
  * debian/control
    - Update policy to 3.8.3 (no changes needed)
    - Add ${misc:Depends} to all depends fields (lintian)
  * debian/rules
    - Add DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE and DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE to CARGS in line with
      /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
    - Removed CARGS without-freetype-config without-fontconfig-config
      because freetype is a build depend and configure can't cope (bug?)
    - Removed deprecated dh_desktop call
  * Create debugging symbols for lesstif2 (-dbg package)
  * Added README.source to confirm to policy 4.14 (lintian)
  * Fixed categories in debian/lesstif-bin.desktop (copied by accident
    from an other package).

 -- Paul Gevers <paul at climbing.nl>  Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:58:30 +0200

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