[Debichem-devel] Bug#947667: gabedit: build-depends (unnecessarily?) on deprecated libpangox-1.0-dev

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 at 21:15:35 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> This package has a build-dependency on libpangox-1.0-dev, the Core X
> backend for Pango, which has been deprecated since at least 2012, is
> unmaintained upstream and is essentially unmaintained in Debian.
...
> There doesn't seem to be a runtime dependency on libpangox-1.0-0, so
> perhaps the build-dependency is unnecessary?

Yes, the build-dependency is unnecessary. Please consider
https://salsa.debian.org/debichem-team/gabedit/-/merge_requests/1
(also attached as a patch, if you prefer those).

I've verified using diffoscope that adding this patch does not alter the
contents of the binary package. (<3 reproducible builds!)

I have not otherwise tested the binary package; sorry, I have no idea
what gabedit is or what it does, other than "probably something to do
with chemistry" :-)

gabedit will be removed from testing soon if this bug is not resolved,
and I'm trying to remove pangox-compat from Debian entirely during the
bookworm cycle.

    smcv
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