[DRE-maint] Maintenance of goocanvas 2.0

[Alberto Garcia]

Hello,

I'm writing here because this address is listed as the maintainer of
goocanvas, but I'm not a member of this team, so please keep me in Cc.

goocanvas 2.0.2 is in Debian experimental thanks to the work of Hideki
Yamane. I need it because it's a dependency of ocrfeeder 0.8, so I
made an NMU to correct some serious problems (#751969). The version
available now (2.0.2-1.1) seems to work fine (for me at least).

Now, there is a number of packages that depend on the old version
of goocanvas (gpredict) or its bindings (openshot, conduit, advene,
shutter, ...).

I haven't checked them but I don't think there's a trivial migration
path, so we cannot just get rid of the old version. That means that
the only way to have goocanvas 2 in unstable is to have a new source
package and keep both the old and the new one in the repository
(that's what Ubuntu seems to do as well).

As it is now, I believe goocanvas 2.0.2-1.1 is in a good shape, so in
principle no extra packaging work should be needed at this point. The
question is: is the current maintainer team willing to have both
packages? I could offer some help, but I don't now if I would have the
time to care of it and keep it up to date in a regular basis.

Regards,

Berto