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

[Simon McVittie]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Wed, 01 Jan 2020 at 20:48:48 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 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 [in 2019].

Now that we're in the Debian 12 release cycle, I'd like to finally remove
gnome-mime-data from Debian, which will make chemical-mime-data unbuildable.
https://salsa.debian.org/debichem-team/chemical-mime-data/-/merge_requests/1
removes the dependency and resolves this bug.

Thanks,
    smcv