[Mageia-dev] glib commit problems

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2011/6/9 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:31:51PM +0100, Zé wrote:
>> To remember that exist other apps that need ORbit and glib (and these
>> are apps that continue being developed) and mageia isnt providing
>> them.
>
> Some stuff is just obsolete. glib1 and ORbit are not maintained at all.
> The last release was in 2002. If you'd file a bug against it it'll be
> marked as obsolete.

Yes, its correct, ORbit lasat entry dates from 2002...
I was almost sure that ORbit was still maintained, but im obvious
wrong, so its better to drop these packages, but my doubt came
specially from kdenetwork that still requires xmms for kopete, (a
kopete xmms plugin).

> IMO, better to focus on making a good distro. If stuff is packaged,
> people should be able to trust they can file bugs and they get fixed.
> That is not the case with glib1, ORbit and anything that relies on
> these.
> --
> Regards,
> Olav
>



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