[Stardata-common-devel] Grumblings about removing Gnome 1 - affects spacechart

[Kevin B. McCarty]

Hi folks,

In case you haven't noticed, there have been some grumblings on
debian-devel and debian-gtk-gnome about the possibility of removing all
Gnome 1 packages:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01270.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2005/09/msg00078.html

The list of affected packages (at the first URL above) includes
spacechart.  Is either of you in contact with upstream?  Do you know if
he plans to release a new version to be built against GTK+/GNOME 2?  I
haven't done any GNOME programming so I don't know how hard porting
spacechart to GNOME 2 would be.

I don't think spacechart should be removed from Debian, as popcon still
reports 96 installations, and at least someone likes it more than
starplot:  http://wiki.debian.net/?EduSpacechart

regards,

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