Removing -config (was: Processing of gnutls26_2.8.1-1_i386.changes)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-06-11 Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> writes:
[...]
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=libgnutls-config;users=ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org

> Ouch.

> I wonder if we shouldn't temporarily add a small debian-specific script
> for libgnutls-config/libgnutls-config-extra to solve this problem faster
> than requiring uploads by everyone else.  What do you think?

> We could install the scripts from 2.6.x, attached below.

> It would be good to solve the above bugs too, but they could be done as
> wishlist bugs and wouldn't hold up the 2.8.x package in debian.

> Too bad 2.8.1 was just released, I could have reverted this upstream.
> I'm beginning to think that maybe we should.  The scripts would still be
> deprecated, and could warn to stderr and the syslog to get noticed, but
> old packages would still build.

Hello,

I do not think usage of libgnutls-config will stop until it stops
working. ;-) From Debian's point IMHO now could be a good time
for that since the next release is far away. The transition looks
manageable but will probably take a couple of months.

I have not got /very/ strong feelings about this, though. If you are
convinced that bringing back -config is the right thing to I will do
so.
cu andreas

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