[Bug 1249204] [NEW] RM: gpe-appmgr gpe-mininet gpe-conf -- ROM; End of Life

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Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/726782:

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

IMHO the time has come to remove GPE from Debian. Upstream has been dead
for some time (two of these three packages have seen no upstream
releases and no Debian uploads since Etch). The environment itself is
aimed at a dead platform (iPAQ) and is unsuitable for use on current
devices like phones or tablets without widescale modification. I've no
interest in maintaining it any longer but rather than simply orphan ~60
packages, I've decided to seek removal on the basis that the orphaned
environment would be unmaintainable in the long term. There is zero
prospect of GPE ever being ported to GTK3.

These three packages are the top level dependencies and need to be
removed together (the metapackage in gpe-conf depends on the other two
which in turn depend on the binary package of gpe-conf). Once these
three are removed, I'll move on to remove the applications and then the
libraries.

I've tried to contact the only other GPE team member to have made
uploads of GPE packages to Debian, Moray, without reply so far. Moray
hasn't made uploads of GPE packages for about a year now.

I've already contacted Gregor regarding gpesyncd and Hector regarding
tslib and each agree that GPE is End of Life. I've already orphaned
tslib - it has uses outside GPE and may find a new maintainer
independently.

Please start the removal of GPE by removing gpe-appmgr, gpe-mininet and
gpe-conf from unstable.

Thanks.

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Neil Williams
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http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/

** Affects: gpe-appmgr (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: gpe-conf (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: gpe-mininet (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: gpe-appmgr (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: gpe-conf (Debian)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: gpe-mininet (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

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RM: gpe-appmgr gpe-mininet gpe-conf -- ROM; End of Life
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