Suggest removal of gtkrsync from karmic

[Max Bowsher]

Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> Andreas Heinlein schrieb:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to suggest removing the package "gtkrsync" from karmic.
>> Gtkrsync is a graphical frontend to rsync, but requires rsync <= 2.6 to
>> work. Since the upgrade of rsync to 3.0 with intrepid (or
>> hardy-backports), gtkrsync is broken. See
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtkrsync/+bug/297183

That bug suggest that only progress bar display, not the entire
operation of the program, is broken - if the breakage is more severe
than that, please could you note that in the bug? Thanks.

>> I have also contacted the original maintainer of gtkrsync one month ago,
>> but got no reply.

A good thing to do - please do note that in the bug report so people are
aware that an upstream solution is unlikely to be forthcoming.


As gtkrsync is in Debian (and moreso since there are no Ubuntu-specific
changes), the best way to proceed is to file the bug report in the
Debian BTS, and discuss fix vs. remove with the Debian maintainer.

Whichever option is chosen, Ubuntu can then sync.



>> I have already seen several packages in jaunty which do not work any
>> more because the software they depend on has changed version. Among them
>> are at least mail-notification-evolution (compiled for Evo 2.24 while
>> Evo 2.26 is in jaunty) and openoffice.org-wiki-publisher (is for OOo 2.4
>> while OOo 3.0 is in jaunty), and I think this is really ugly.

Yes, it's ugly - please ensure bugs are filed, and if you feel the bug
reports are being overlooked, ask for attention on IRC or this mailing list.

>> I think we should at least remove such packages if they cannot be fixed.

Yes.

Max.

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