[Mageia-dev] Pino

[Sebastian]

On 03/12/11 07:06, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> W dniu 23.11.2011 22:30, Philippe Makowski pisze:
>> Pascal Terjan<pterjan at gmail.com>  a écrit :
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 15:34, philippe makowski
>>> <makowski.mageia at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> 2011/11/23 Funda Wang<fundawang at gmail.com>:
>>>>> The problem is, why we are shipping a dead package?
>>>> Dead ?
>>>> https://bitbucket.org/troorl/pino3/
>>>>
>>>> not sure it is dead
>>>>
>>> It is dead as in "build errors reported 1 year ago have not been fixed
>> Ok dead or nearly, no package maintainer, certainly alternatives (I 
>> don't know) so we can drop it
>>
>>
> pino is moved to obsoletes in our svn
>
> Please remove it from mirrors

Pino may be dead or dieing, but it is still a very popular client for 
Identi.ca. I find it a very good client, as a result I strongly believe 
that it should definitely stay in the repos for Mageia 2.

If Pino is no longer made I think it would be good for many distros to 
still provide it in their repos for at least another year

Also looking at things from a user point of view, I think that many 
computer users don't mind using old software that is no longer 
maintained as long as they can still use it for it's intended purpose. I 
think that for myself and many other people that use Identi.ca  Pino is 
an example of this.

Unfortunately at the moment though in my install of Mageia 2 Alpha 1 
with the latest updates, I can't install Pino using RPMdrake, because:

Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:

- pino-0.2.11-1.mga1.i586 (due to unsatisfied libnotify.so.1)

As for other clients that could be provided in the repos there's Gwibber 
and Hotot and so on.

P.S

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