The package "hamster-time-tracker" (which is highly important for my daily work :-) has been removed from TW 1 year ago with the argument "depends on old things we would like to drop".
I just installed the current version from GNOME:Apps and it pulled in exactly ZERO dependencies. The list of requirements looks indeed pretty
harmless (https://paste.opensuse.org/56376182).
What were the offending "old things" because of which this package has been dropped? Have these dependencies perhaps been fixed in the current GNOME:Apps package, and if this is so, would it be possible to re-add it to the TW core repo?
Btw, https://software.opensuse.org/package/hamster-time-tracker?search_ term=hamster-time-tracker still lists this package with an "official release", but the respective links are broken; that looks like a bug to me.
Best Regards, Martin
On 01/03/2017 03:11 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
The package "hamster-time-tracker" (which is highly important for my daily work :-) has been removed from TW 1 year ago with the argument "depends on old things we would like to drop".
What were the offending "old things" because of which this package has been dropped?
Looking at the last upstream commit [1] from last July, it seems the code is unmaintained (and greatly re-written in another project) ATM:
+**IMPORTANT** +Project Hamster is undergoing a period of major transition. Unless someone +steps up to the task, this repository will remain unmaintained as the +majority of our resources are directed to a rewrite (repositories: +``hamster-lib/dbus/cli/gtk``). Whilst you may leave bug reports and feature +request with the issue tracker, please be warned that fixes at the current +codebase will most likely stay unfixed and PR unmerged. Feature request will +be reevaluated once the new codebase takes though.
[1] https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/commit/c3e5fb761c
Have a nice day, Berny
On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 16:19 +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 01/03/2017 03:11 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
The package "hamster-time-tracker" (which is highly important for my daily work :-) has been removed from TW 1 year ago with the argument "depends on old things we would like to drop". What were the offending "old things" because of which this package has been dropped?
Looking at the last upstream commit [1] from last July, it seems the code is unmaintained (and greatly re-written in another project) ATM:
[1] https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/commit/c3e5fb761c
Well, the tool is pretty stable. It has been working well for me for years.
http://projecthamster.org/project-hamster-reboot.html
summarizes the upstream situation, which is certainly not ideal. Yet I'm wondering whether this warrants dropping the package altogether. I'm not aware of a suitable replacement, other than the new hamster project, which seems to make good progress but is still in alpha stage.
Regards, Martin
Martin Wilck wrote:
On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 16:19 +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 01/03/2017 03:11 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
The package "hamster-time-tracker" (which is highly important for my daily work :-) has been removed from TW 1 year ago with the argument "depends on old things we would like to drop". What were the offending "old things" because of which this package has been dropped?
Looking at the last upstream commit [1] from last July, it seems the code is unmaintained (and greatly re-written in another project) ATM:
[1] https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/commit/c3e5fb761c
Well, the tool is pretty stable. It has been working well for me for years.
http://projecthamster.org/project-hamster-reboot.html
summarizes the upstream situation, which is certainly not ideal. Yet I'm wondering whether this warrants dropping the package altogether. I'm not aware of a suitable replacement, other than the new hamster project, which seems to make good progress but is still in alpha stage.
If you need it and would like to take care of the package just submit it again.
cu Ludwig
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