On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:46 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I just orphaned gdk-pixbuf in pkgdb. > > It failed the mass rebuild, not much left that depends on it, and > nothing I need. ;) [...] > soundtracker-0.6.8-8.fc12.src.rpm Soundtracker can be built without gdk-pixbuf. I will do just that if it shows to still run without obvious segfaults or anything similar.

It failed the mass rebuild, not much left that depends on it, and nothing I need. ;)

So, if anyone really really really wants to keep it alive, feel free to take it and fix it so it builds and works. ;)

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com&gt; wrote: > Kevin Fenzi wrote about gdk-pixbuf: >  > It failed the mass rebuild, not much left that depends on it, and >  > nothing I need. ;) > [...] > >>  So, if anyone really really really wants to keep it alive, feel >> free to take it and fix it so it builds and works. ;) > > > I use gdk-pixbuf in an application that is used on Fedora but for > licensing reasons can't currently be submitted as a Fedora package. >  I'd hate to see gdk-pixbuf go away, as I don't know what I could > use to replace it.  I've never looked at building gdk-pixbuf > myself, and have never been able to wrap my head around autotools, > so if the cause of the FTBFS isn't obvious, I doubt that I can fix > it quickly.  I'm not going to commit to taking maintainership of > the package right now, but if nobody else does and I find the time > to deal with it, perhaps I will in the future. > > As far as I can tell, gdk-pixbuf hasn't been deprecated upstream; > there was a new release in August.  Has anyone notified upstream > about the FTBFS? Are you sure your not referring to gdk-pixbuf2?

Yes, gdk-pixbuf2 is not going away. gdk-pixbuf is the gtk1-era incarnation and not really used by anything anymore.