glom depends on libepc, removed from Debian

[Steve Langasek]

The glom package depends on libepc, which has been removed from Debian and should be removed from Ubuntu (Debian bug #785438). Please update glom to not require this obsolete library, or else reassign this bug to the ubuntu-archive team to request its removal as well.

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

A link to the debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785438

Debian removed it because nothing in Debian depends on it, because Debian doesn't package Glom. What's the reason to remove libepc from Ubuntu, which does package Glom?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Steve, the Debian bug claims the package is "unmaintained upstream" but that doesn't seem to be true right now.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libepc/log/

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Ok, if you intend to keep both libepc and glom in Ubuntu, that's also an option. In that case, please upload libepc to Ubuntu, changing its maintainer field to reflect that you are assuming responsibility, and close this bug.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Just to clarify, are you ok with the Maintainer being the generic "Ubuntu Developers" output from update-maintainer?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Murray, you might know the libepc situation better than we do. Is it really unmaintained? Is that an issue for glom and if so do you plan to address it in some way like by picking up maintainance or moving away from using the library?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libepc - 0.4.6-0ubuntu1

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libepc (0.4.6-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Update maintainer (LP: #1698236)
  * Bump debhelper compat to 10
  * Switch from cdbs to dh
  * debian/control.in:
    - Explicitly build-depend on gnome-common and gtk-doc-tools
    - Bump minimum GLib to 2.36
  * debian/rules:
    - Enable all hardening flags
    - Don't fail the build for failing tests yet
    - Don't build static library
    - Build with --fail-missing

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Jun 2017 06:09:12 -0400

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

The Ubuntu Desktop team is not interested in being responsible for maintaining glom or libepc since they are in universe and aren't of particular interest to the Desktop team. But as long as these are maintained by MOTUs, I don't see that there is a particular problem here.

I have uploaded glom with the maintainer reset to Ubuntu Developers.