Is referencer development active? Port referencer to newer libgnomemm?

[Alex L]

libgnomemm26 has been retired in Fedora, due to it no longer being able to build in F16 and later. It also appears that development upstream of libgnomemm has stalled (last release was in March 2010):

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnomemm/

This effectively means that referencer can no longer be built in Fedora 16 and later, and may have to be retired, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735186

Are there any plans to port referencer to newer toolkits? Is referencer development even still active?

[Marek (marek-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:
Build of referencer fails because of missing dependency. It misses libgnomeuimm26-devel.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
referencer-1.1.6-18

How reproducible:
always

[Alex (alex-redhat-bugs)]

libgnomeuimm has been obsoleted in f16 and higher, and referencer doesn't look like it's ported to use anything else (and development has slowed, although there is some life on launchpad: https://launchpad.net/referencer ), and so we may have to retire this package.

[Alex (alex-redhat-bugs)]

I filed a bug in what appears to be a (potentially) active upstream to get some feedback about whether referencer could be built in the future, before we retire the package completely:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/referencer/+bug/877614

[Alex (alex-redhat-bugs)]

retired in packagedb, and filed a ticket in rel-eng to block from both f16 and rawhide: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4962

Will close this bug once blocking has gone through.

[Mads Chr. Olesen (shiyee)]

Yes, Referencer development is still sort of active. The current trunk no longer has a dependency on libgnomemm, and is also ported from gnomevfs to gio.

A new release should happen sometime real soon.

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