[bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org: [Bug 3080] libdps and libdpstk are obsolete and should be removed]

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 20:12, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi all,
> There is a debate on bug#3080 (link inline) about removing DPS.  Roland
> has asserted that since large UNIX vendors still ship DPS, we must ship
> DPS also, despite the complete lack of a server-side implementation, and
> that the upstream author has marked the project as abandoned for years
> now.  It has been deprecated since XFree86 4.3, released in 2003.
>
> Does anyone have any realistic objections as to the removal of libDPS
> from the monolithic tree, given that a) there is no server-side
> implementation, and b) it has been abandoned upstream for some time
> now.
>
> The upstream code still builds, so surely the users of DPS, who are not
> using an Xorg server to start off with, can get the code upstream?
>
> I would like to frame this as a one-week call for objections: please
> speak before the 28th of April, or forever hold your peace?

Given Alan's point about 7.0 really being the logical place to break things as 
opposed to 6.9, I propose disabling DPS in the imakery by default, and 
striking it from the list of modules to create in 7.0.

In the unlikely event that someone feels really strongly about preserving DPS, 
they are welcome to modularise it and host it on fd.o, but it won't be in the 
7.0 tree.

If this sounds unreasonable, please make a compelling case for preserving DPS 
by 27 April.

- ajax
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