Bug#885037: monster-masher: Please don't (Build-)Depend on gconfmm2.6

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity 856086 serious

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
> Is there a porting guide somewhere?

I don't have one off hand. Sorry.

To be clear, this is a longer list of libraries unmaintained for years
that we'd like to remove for Buster that your package Depends or
Build-Depends on:
- gconf
- libesd0 which is https://bugs.debian.org/856086
- libgconfmm-2.6-1v5
- libglademm-2.4-1v5
- libgnome2-0
- libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1v5

I think you'll want to port to GTK+ 3 for the last 3 items on that list.

> P.S.: A heads-up with a lower severity would have been nice. Sometimes
> it gives people more time to find a solution...

In my opinion, it is early enough that you could drop the Severity to
Important temporarily to give yourself a bit more time (for this bug
and 856086). But eventually (maybe a month or two?), we'll come back
around and want to bump the severity if this package is blocking
removal for some of those dependencies.

I think it makes sense to let packages that don't have concerned
maintainers be autoremoved from Testing now so that the list of
affected packages becomes more manageable.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha