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Bug#965098: please remove geda-gaf from the archive

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  Bug#965098: please remove geda-gaf from the archive Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> - 2020-07-16 07:30 +0200
    Bug#965098: please remove geda-gaf from the archive Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2020-07-16 18:00 +0200

#1018130 — Bug#965098: please remove geda-gaf from the archive

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Package: ftp.debian.org

I'm a member of the Debian Electronics team, and have been one of the
maintainers of Debian's geda-gaf package for the last few years.

The geda-gaf package is holding back guile-2.0 removal, and I see little
chance that upstream will care about this any time soon.  There's a
newer upstream release than what's in Debian, and it still hard depends
on guile-2.0.

For users, the lepton-eda package which is well maintained upstream and
in Debian is a complete replacement, with no change in file formats so
existing designs can just continue to be worked on.  The current
lepton-eda package supports guile-2.2, and I understand guile-3.0
support will be included in the next upstream version.

There are two reverse dependencies on geda-gaf, gspiceui, and
contrib/easyspice.  Both appear to be maintained by Gudjon
I. Gudjonsson, who I will CC.

It looks like the last gspiceui upstream release was in late 2018, and
the only reason it depends on geda-gaf is that it wants to use gnetlist
to import schematic data from gschem.  Updating that to use
lepton-netlist to import schematic data from lepton-schematic should be
a pretty simple search and replace operation if keeping gspiceui seems
worthwhile (I don't know, I've never used it).

The situation with easyspice seems similar, and it can probably be made
to work with lepton-eda just as easily.  However, since it's in contrib
and not main, I'm not particularly concerned about what happens to it.

Bottom line, I think it's time we remove geda-gaf from the archive, and
focus the attention of geda-gaf users towards lepton-eda as a replacement.

Bdale

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Hello Bdale,

On Wed 15 Jul 2020 at 11:08PM -06, Bdale Garbee wrote:

> Package: ftp.debian.org
>
> I'm a member of the Debian Electronics team, and have been one of the
> maintainers of Debian's geda-gaf package for the last few years.
>
> The geda-gaf package is holding back guile-2.0 removal, and I see little
> chance that upstream will care about this any time soon.  There's a
> newer upstream release than what's in Debian, and it still hard depends
> on guile-2.0.

Please retitle this bug according to the "About removals in Debian"
section of https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.html -- our removal
scripts depend on this.

> There are two reverse dependencies on geda-gaf, gspiceui, and
> contrib/easyspice.  Both appear to be maintained by Gudjon
> I. Gudjonsson, who I will CC.

Please remove the moreinfo tag from this bug once these packages have
been removed or updated such that there are no more rdeps.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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