Bugzilla Bug 193496

gal is an über old library of gnome (presumably <=gnome-2.2) and deserves to
die.
This bug is intended to track the few dependencies to fix to achieve this goal.

11:35 < EvaSDK> !rdep gnome-extra/gal
11:35 < jeeves> gnome-extra/gal <- app-text/gnomesword gnome-extra/gtkhtml

as a matter of fact, all versions of gnomesword do not depend on gal (as per
the configure.in) and
gtkhtml-3.0.10-r1.ebuild:RDEPEND="=gnome-extra/gal-1.99.11*

I've prepared a patch for gnomesword ebuilds and will fill a separate bug.

As of gtkhtml-3.0, here is the list of ebuild currently having references to
this specific version:
dev-db/mysql-query-browser-1.1.18
mail-client/balsa-{2.2.6-r3,2.3.4-r1,2.2.6-r4}
dev-dotnet/gtkhtml-sharp-{1.0.10,2.8.2,2.16.0}
net-misc/logjam-{4.5.2,4.4.1}
app-editors/peacock-1.9.1-r1

it is likely most of these can actually use greater version of gtkhtml so it
shouldn't take to much efforts to fix this.

CC'ing relevant addresses so we can get some appropriate feedback.

More details on gtkhtml-3.0 cleaning:

dev-db/mysql-query-browser-1.1.18 appears to absolutely need 3.0, there is a
new release on mysql website but it's now distributed as a single tar with all
the other mysql tools. This will require a bit of work (if not lastriting).

app-editors/peacock-1.9.1-r1 appears to unconditionnaly depends on 3.0 as well.
Developpement seem to have stopped back in 2003 and I wonder what's the use of
it for sgml herd. (last-rite ?)

mail-client/balsa-{2.2.6-r3,2.3.4-r1,2.2.6-r4}
dev-dotnet/gtkhtml-sharp-{1.0.10,2.8.2,2.16.0}
net-misc/logjam-4.5.2

can have this specific version stripped from DEPEND.
logjam-4.4.1 could be removed from the tree once/if 4.5.2 is stabled.

For dev-db/mysql-query-browser there's already dev-db/mysql-gui-tools as a
replacement in the tree. The old mysql-query-browser can be completley removed
from the tree.

(In reply to comment #2)
> app-editors/peacock-1.9.1-r1 appears to unconditionnaly depends on 3.0 as well.
> Developpement seem to have stopped back in 2003 and I wonder what's the use of
> it for sgml herd. (last-rite ?)

This package is not really important for the SGML herd, we inherited it since
it used to be maintained by someone who was part of the, now extinct,
text-markup herd.

Tt doesn't make much of a difference if it stays or goes from our perspective,
so if you plan to remove gal from the tree, feel free to add peacock to the
last-rites message.

Thanks.

note to self, dev-db/mysql-query-browser is already on the lastriting list
thanks to swenegener, proceed with the rest

# Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org> (14 Dec 2007)
# gal is an über old library of gnome and deserves to die.
# see bug #193496
=gnome-extra/gtkhtml-3.0.10-r1
app-editors/peacock
gnome-extra/gal

mail sent to dev and dev-announce, marking as fixed

from the gnomebuild README
GNOME Build Framework README
================================

This is the GNOME Build Framework (GBF).

The following packages are required by GBF:
        gal (0.3+ should work)
        bonobo (0.29+ should work)
        oaf (0.6.0)

This package is required for the newer versions of anjuta

Nothing references gal inside gnome-build. The last reference in the ChangeLog
is from 2001 and the file that apparently used gal no longer exists in svn. To
me, it looks like the README is outdated.

Do have you have actual build errors? If so, could you paste them in another
bug?

Thanks

It is referenced in the gnome-build-0.2 in the README document.

Just grep -i gal inside gnome-build, you'll see that it does _not_ need gal
despite whatever that README says. It is _outdated_. In fact, you could do
upstream a favor by letting them know they still have some gal references in
their README and in their Red Hat .spec file. Please file a bug in Gnome's
bugzilla.

This is a non-issue, thanks.

Last rite bugs are closed as fixed when they have exited the tree after the 30
days. Reopening and adding PMASKED keyword ro follow the custom.

fixed for real this time, it's gone, dead and buried for good :)