[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#893770: amide: Don't depend on libgnomecanvas

[Gert Wollny]

Am Donnerstag, den 22.03.2018, 00:40 -0400 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
> Source: amide
> Version: 1.0.5-10
> Severity: serious
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: libgnomecanvas oldlibs
> 
> As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with
> libgnomecanvas, one of the old unmaintained libgnome libraries. Your
> package Build-Depends and Depends on this library.

Well, porting amide to something else than libgnomecanvas seems to be
quite a task - i.e. I have no idea where I would start, and on the
other hand, amide just works and is widely  used by people who work
with image processing, so it would be a shame to have to drop it from
Debian. 

What would be your opinion on offering libgnomecanvas for adoption?

My approach would then be to strip out everything that requires 
gnome-common and gnome-pkg-tooks, possibly also gtk-doc-tools so that
the package can continue to be available until upstream ports it or
gtk2 is dropped, at which point maintainance really will become
impossible.

> amide has one more old dependency: scrollkeeper. I can submit a patch
> for this later if you like.
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html
That would be nice, 

Gert