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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:58:03 +0100
From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
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Subject: gnome-chemistry-utils: Build-Depends on unmaintained gnome-common
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Source: gnome-chemistry-utils
Severity: important
Tags: sid forky
Control: block 1112389 by -1
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gnome-common

This source package Build-Depends on gnome-common, a collection of 
autoconf macros formerly used by GNOME, which was deprecated 10 years 
ago.

gnome-common is now unmaintained upstream and has been moved to a 
read-only archive, meaning that issue reports and merge requests will 
not be accepted, even if a serious problem is found.

Please remove this dependency. One popular way to do this is to convert 
the upstream build system from Autotools to Meson (or CMake) which will 
often make it more maintainable and understandable. Meson is now GNOME's 
preferred build system.

If the upstream developer prefers to stay with Autotools, please replace 
gnome-common Autoconf macros with autoconf-archive Autoconf macros, and 
replace gnome-autogen.sh with a local copy. For more details see GNOME's 
porting guide:

* https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects(2f)GnomeCommon(2f)Migration.html

wiki.gnome.org is also being phased out. If it disappears, use this 
archived copy of the porting guide:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20250829115144/https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects(2f)GnomeCommon(2f)Migration.html

Thanks,
    smcv
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