gnome-pilot

[Neil Williams]

I've a slight interest in pilot related stuff via previous upstream
work with pilot-link and my own pilot-qof upstream project, but I no
longer use my own Palm (although it does work sufficiently to test
programs). pilot-qof is an alternative to gnome-pilot but not a drop-in
replacement, it has a different emphasis.

gnome-pilot is orphaned and I've played with doing a QA upload which
also includes the new upstream release. Several things occur to me:

1. the new upstream release still wants bonobo and other deprecated
Gnome libraries like bonobo and libgnomeui. Some activity is apparent
upstream but I've no idea about the status of gnome-pilot regarding
GTK3.0 changes and the removal of bonobo and libgnomeui etc.

2. the current package has a lot of Debian bugs, as expected for a
package abandoned for a year

3. Both the current package and my updated package work with my own
device.

4. I do not have time to become maintainer of gnome-pilot.

5. gnome-pilot has been orphaned for over a year with no interest.

6. The existing SVN @ svn.debian.org needs to be refreshed and I've got
uncommitted changes which fix lots of issues.

I feel a QA upload is all I can really offer at this stage, including
fixing the SVN, but I'm concerned that this is a new upstream release
still using deprecated libraries which I've carefully removed from my
own upstream packages. I don't have time to work with gnome-pilot
upstream (and, TBH, the move to git.gnome.org and some of the attitudes
of .gnome.org people in the past really puts me off working with
upstream), so I'm not the best choice for maintainer. ;-)

I don't want to do a QA upload which becomes an RM when Squeeze enters
freeze....

Is there a realistic chance that bonobo et al will be removed before
Squeeze?

What would your collective preference be?

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Neil Williams
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