Debian Bug report logs - #638127
RM: ows -- dead upstream; blocks GNOME3 transition

Package: ftp.debian.org; Maintainer for ftp.debian.org is Debian FTP Master <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>;

Reported by: joss@debian.org

Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:36:47 UTC

Severity: serious

Done: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to David Villa Alises <David.Villa@uclm.es>:
Bug#638127; Package ows. (Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:36:50 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to joss@debian.org:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to David Villa Alises <David.Villa@uclm.es>. (Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:36:50 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: joss@debian.org
To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: ows: needs porting to new libpanel-applet interface
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:33:19 +0200
Package: ows
Version: 0.20100530-1
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: applets-transition

Hi,

this package currently depends on python-gnomeapplet - most likely 
because it provides an applet for the GNOME panel.

The introduction of gnome-panel 3.0 to unstable is imminent. In this 
version, the panel-applet library has undergone large changes, and 
ows requires changes to support this version:
 * updating to the D-Bus activation mechanism
 * porting to GTK+ 3
 * porting from PyGTK to the GObject Introspection mechanism

You might want to check if upstream developers provide a new version, 
compatible with gnome-panel 3.x. Otherwise, porting is a feasible task 
if you have a few hours to spare. If you feel like it, the following 
guides should help you:
 * http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting
 * http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html
 * http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppletsDbusMigration

For packages that provide other functionality than the GNOME applet, 
you can simply disable it in the build and remove the dependency if 
it hasn’t been ported. 

For pure applets packages, you should ask for removal from the 
archive if you do not intend to port it to the new interface. Such 
packages that have not been ported when gnome-panel is ready to 
migrate will be kicked out of testing.

Cheers,
-- 
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Severity set to 'serious' from 'important' Request was from Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:21:51 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, David Villa Alises <David.Villa@uclm.es>:
Bug#638127; Package ows. (Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:32:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>:
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Message #12 received at 638127@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
To: 638115@bugs.debian.org, 638083@bugs.debian.org, 638107@bugs.debian.org, 638082@bugs.debian.org, 638106@bugs.debian.org, 638113@bugs.debian.org, 638126@bugs.debian.org, 638101@bugs.debian.org, 638089@bugs.debian.org, 638092@bugs.debian.org, 638080@bugs.debian.org, 638110@bugs.debian.org, 638100@bugs.debian.org, 638109@bugs.debian.org, 638130@bugs.debian.org, 638087@bugs.debian.org, 638128@bugs.debian.org, 638122@bugs.debian.org, 638077@bugs.debian.org, 638121@bugs.debian.org, 638124@bugs.debian.org, 638091@bugs.debian.org, 638135@bugs.debian.org, 638098@bugs.debian.org, 638079@bugs.debian.org, 638076@bugs.debian.org, 638086@bugs.debian.org, 638117@bugs.debian.org, 638129@bugs.debian.org, 638123@bugs.debian.org, 638132@bugs.debian.org, 638093@bugs.debian.org, 638131@bugs.debian.org, 638094@bugs.debian.org, 638120@bugs.debian.org, 638095@bugs.debian.org, 638099@bugs.debian.org, 638075@bugs.debian.org, 638112@bugs.debian.org, 638102@bugs.debian.org, 638133@bugs.debian.org, 638127@bugs.debian.org, 638097@bugs.debian.org, 638103@bugs.debian.org, 638078@bugs.debian.org, 638088@bugs.debian.org, 638081@bugs.debian.org, 638119@bugs.debian.org, 638116@bugs.debian.org, 638105@bugs.debian.org, 638125@bugs.debian.org, 638111@bugs.debian.org, 638134@bugs.debian.org, 638118@bugs.debian.org, 638084@bugs.debian.org, 638085@bugs.debian.org, 638104@bugs.debian.org, 638074@bugs.debian.org, 638090@bugs.debian.org, 638096@bugs.debian.org, 638114@bugs.debian.org, 638108@bugs.debian.org
Subject: libpanel-applet transition: please upload a fix to unstable
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:16:59 +0200
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Hi,

The GNOME 3 transition has started and it's time to upload fixes for the
panel applets to unstable. If a fix isn't available or doable, please disable
applet support; otherwise, your package will we removed from testing in
order to complete the transition.

Bugs concerning this migration are now considered release critical and
will be updated to serious severity following this email.

Thanks,
Jordi, on behalf of the GNOME team.
-- 
Jordi Mallach Pérez  --  Debian developer     http://www.debian.org/
jordi@sindominio.net     jordi@debian.org     http://www.sindominio.net/
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Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, David Villa Alises <David.Villa@uclm.es>:
Bug#638127; Package ows. (Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:51:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to David Villa Alises <David.Villa@uclm.es>. (Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:51:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #17 received at 638127@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
To: 638127@bugs.debian.org
Cc: control@bugs.debian.org
Subject: RM: ows -- dead upstream; blocks GNOME3 transition
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:48:49 +0200
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reassign 638127 ftp.debian.org
retitle 638127 RM: ows -- dead upstream; blocks GNOME3 transition
thanks

Please remove ows from the archive: it has not had any relevant upstream
activity since 2007, has low popcon and is blocking the GNOME3 transition.
It certainly doesn't look like this will be ported to GNOME3 any time
soon.

The Debian maintainer/upstream author was contacted but got no reply.

Thanks,
Jordi
-- 
Jordi Mallach Pérez  --  Debian developer     http://www.debian.org/
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Bug reassigned from package 'ows' to 'ftp.debian.org'. Request was from Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:51:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Bug No longer marked as found in versions ows/0.20100530-1. Request was from Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:51:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Changed Bug title to 'RM: ows -- dead upstream; blocks GNOME3 transition' from 'ows: needs porting to new libpanel-applet interface' Request was from Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:51:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Reply sent to Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:37:18 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to joss@debian.org:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:37:26 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #28 received at 638127-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>
To: 638127-close@bugs.debian.org
Cc: ows@packages.debian.org, ows@packages.qa.debian.org
Subject: Bug#638127: Removed package(s) from unstable
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:31:47 +0000
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

       ows | 0.20100530-1 | source, all

------------------- Reason -------------------
dead upstream; blocks GNOME3 transition
----------------------------------------------

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.

We try to close Bugs which have been reported against this package
automatically.  But please check all old bugs, if they where closed
correctly or should have been re-assign to another package.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 638127@bugs.debian.org.

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Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:34:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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