[arch-dev-public] rename lcms -> lcms1

Balló György ballogyor at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 13:25:58 UTC 2018


<jan at jgc.homeip.net> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. szept. 17., H, 10:19):

> Christian Hesse schreef op 2018-09-14 21:18:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > we have packages lcms (which provides lcms 1.x) and lcms2. The former
> > is
> > flagged out-of-date every now and then for version 2.x... I would like
> > to
> > rename the package to lcms1 with replace and provide for lcms. Any
> > concerns?
>
> I don't think we should rename. Kill the package instead. The software
> is unmaintained upstream and probably several security issues exist.
>
> Most packages that still depend on lcms1 can be changed to lcms2 without
> patches. For packages that need patches, Debian has those and otherwise
> we should just remove the software together with lcms1.
>

+1 for removing lcms1. I fixed the packages in the [community] repository.
Someone else should fix packages in [extra], because I don't have access to
this repository:
- geeqie (FS#60091)
- gimp (FS#60092)
- xsane (FS#60090)

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