[opensuse-factory] [DEL Announce] Compiz will be dropped from Tumbleweed From : Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar <dimstar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

: Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar <dimstar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date : Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:16:42 +0100

: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:16:42 +0100 Message-id : <c2f709e5730a9963d8b105e45c7af5164f85f7c8.camel@opensuse.org>

Hi all,



this is the final chance for somebody to step up and give CPR to

Compiz.



Compiz once used to be this nice thingy, mostly known for projecting

desktops onto a cube and making windows wobbly.



It's been a long that this package did not have a successul build.

First failure was noted on August 1st 2019.



Considering the time that has passed, I am but to believe that the

current maintainer(s) don't care that much for it anymore.



Also the version we have in Factory gives this a bit away: we are at

0.8.16, whereas upstream released 0.9.14.1 in Nov 2019 (so upstream

does seema live; not sure if kicking :P )



So, this is basically a wakeup call: if somebody cares a lot for compiz

it would be about THAT moment to speak up - and the step up to become

the new maintainer. Otherwise, the delete request will be processed,

which will include those packages (dep tree)



compiz :

compicc

compiz-emerald

compiz-emerald-themes

compiz-plugins-experimental

compiz-plugins-extra

compiz-plugins-main

libcompizconfig

python-compizconfig

simple-ccsm



Of course, seeing compiz go makes my heart bleed a little bit - there

has been a time in the past where I was actually maintainer of that

stack (back in the GNOME 2.x days; when I was using and enjoying

compiz)



Cheers,

Dominique

