[Splashy-devel] Bug#599245: not fit for squeeze

[Michael Biebl]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.13-5.1+b1
Severity: serious

Hi,

imho splashy is not fit for being released in squeeze:
1/ It does not work with KMS which is the default for all major graphics
drivers
2/ Has a long list of important bugs
3/ Breaks the boot badly. At the end of the boot process I only have a
black screen and gdm never shows up. I need to hard-reset the machine.
4/ Due to startpar in makefile being the default, progress bar support
is broken, making splashy even less useful.
5/ Development of splashy is dead (at least there has been no activity
for a very long time).

I'm not the maintainer of splashy but in its current state I think the
package should not be released with squeeze (as was usplash) and we
would do our users a disservice having this package in squeeze.

It might be worth considering dropping the package altogether, but I'll
leave that decision up to the package maintainer.

Cheers,
Michael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools         0.98.4           tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9       1.2.10.0-4       direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-2        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.26.0-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1               5.04-5           File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy1             0.3.13-5.1+b1    Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  lsb-base                3.2-25           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages splashy suggests:
pn  console-common                <none>     (no description available)
ii  splashy-themes                0.4.1      A complete user-space boot splash 
ii  upstart                       0.6.6-1    event-based init daemon

-- no debconf information