[Debichem-devel] Bug#947900: chemical-mime-data: build-depends on unmaintained gnome-mime-data

[Simon McVittie]

Package: chemical-mime-data
Version: 0.1.94-7
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gnome-mime-data
Control: block 947878 by -1

chemical-mime-data build-depends on the unmaintained gnome-mime-data
package, which appears to have been used by the GNOME 2 gnome-vfs
libraries, which became obsolete with the release of GNOME 3 in 2011 and
were finally removed from Debian last year. This is the only dependency
in Debian unstable that would be broken by removing gnome-mime-data.

All vaguely modern versions of GNOME (and all other major desktop
environments, as far as I know) use the freedesktop.org shared-mime-info
database for MIME types. chemical-mime-data appears to contain data to
extend both the newer shared-mime-info and the old gnome-mime-data.

Please either extend shared-mime-info only (and stop extending,
build-depending on or suggesting gnome-mime-data), or get these MIME
types incorporated into the upstream shared-mime-info package so that
chemical-mime-data can turn into a transitional package.

Thanks,
    smcv