[Mageia-dev] Pino

Oliver Burger oliver.bgr at googlemail.com
Sat Dec 3 10:03:33 CET 2011


2011/12/3 Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia at gmx.com>:
> 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)
>
The problem in this case is: pino isn't working anymore with the newer
libraries included in Mageia.
It can't be built against those libraries and with no upstream to fix
that, one of our packagers would have to take over the de facto
development.
Also there are alternatives in the repo, aren't there?

> As for other clients that could be provided in the repos there's Gwibber and
> Hotot and so on.
gwibber is in the repos, about others I don't know. I don't use that
stuff. But you can always file a rpm request on our bugzilla.

Oliver


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