Bug#266965: closed by Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org> (it's been a while, and a replacement exists)

[Fabrice Lorrain]

Hello Gustavo.

Thanks for the follow up & closing of this BTS. gcolor2 is a nice 
alternative.

@+,

	Fab

Debian Bug Tracking System a écrit :
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> which was filed against the gnome-utils package:
> 
> #266965: gnome-utils: missing gcolorsel and all
> 
> It has been closed by Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>.
> 
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> 
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> 
> Sujet:
> it's been a while, and a replacement exists
> Expéditeur:
> Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
> Date:
> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:24:11 -0300
> Destinataire:
> 266965-done at bugs.debian.org
> 
> Destinataire:
> 266965-done at bugs.debian.org
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Looking at http://bugs.debian.org/266965, while I agree that at the time
> this was a problem (I would consider this a bad regression myself), it's
> been quite a while, and an alternative has poped up: gcolor2, so I see
> no point in having this bug open anymore.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Sujet:
> gnome-utils: missing gcolorsel and all
> Expéditeur:
> Fabrice Lorrain <Fabrice.Lorrain at chello.fr>
> Date:
> Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:51:42 +0200
> Destinataire:
> Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> 
> Destinataire:
> Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Copie cachée à:
> Fabrice Lorrain <Fabrice.Lorrain at chello.fr>
> 
> 
> Package: gnome-utils
> Version: 2.6.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This package is a pretty strip down version of the one in woody
> and has a very bad regression signature.
> 
> Would have been nice to get a warning throug debconf NEWS.
> I didn't find a better replacement (using apt-file) to gcolorsel than xcolorsel ... If you
> don't find anything better, might be nice to add a Suggest on it and
> maybe some line in README.Debian.
> 
> Reading /usr/share/doc/gnome-utils/README, I understand that this
> overall change came from upstream. You can forward upstream that this kind
> of changes makes some users pretty pissed off.
> 
> @+,
> 	Fab
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.7arkham
> Locale: LANG=fr, LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-15 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR at euro)
> 
> Versions of packages gnome-utils depends on:
> ii  e2fslibs                  1.35-6         The EXT2 filesystem libraries
> ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
> ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-5        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
> ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
> ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.3-2        GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
> ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.6-1        The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.6.1-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
> ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
> ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
> ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-4      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
> ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.2-1        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
> ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.4-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
> ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
> ii  libpanel-applet2-0        2.6.2-2        Library for GNOME 2 Panel applets
> ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-2        Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
> ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
> ii  libstartup-notification0  0.7-1          library for program launch feedbac
> ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-3       GNOME XML library
> ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging syste
> ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
> ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime
> 
> -- no debconf information
>