gdk-pixbuf being retired

[Petr Pisar]

On 2011-11-22, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:40:14 -0600
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>
>> I picked up gdk-pixbuf because freetennis supposedly depended on it
>> but actually doesn't. (Though freetennis if also FTBFS for another
>> reason so clearing the dependency isn't simple.) Though only thing
>> that really depends on it is xosd-xmms and I have checked with Kevin
>> about that and he will remove that subpackage or retire xosd.
>>
>> gdk-pixbuf is FTBFS because it won't build without rerunning some of
>> the autotools programs and does not build with the currently available
>> autotools versions available. There are a number of errors reported
>> that would need to get this building again and the effort doesn't seem
>> worth it.
>>
>> So I have now retired the package in rawhide (f17).
>
> To go along with this, I am retiring xosd. There are still a few things
> that use it or have xosd subpackages. If any of those folks want to
> take it over, they would need both it and gdk-pixbuf.=20
>
[...]
> xmms-xosd-0:2.2.14-14.fc15.x86_64

xmms-xosd is subpackage of xosd. xosd requires gdk-pixbuf-0 only because
of the XMMS plug-in.

Because I use xosd but XMMS, I'm taking xosd to continue it without XMMS
extension.

-- Petr