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

[Markus Koschany]

Am 28.02.2018 um 04:52 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
> monster-masher is one of the last two packages in Debian unstable
> depending on esound. (And even if that were fixed, monster-masher
> depends on several other GNOME2 libraries that are being removed.)
> 
> monster-masher has been unmaintained usptream for 9 years.
> 
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/monster-masher/log/
> 
> Maybe it's time for monster-masher to be removed from Debian?

monster-masher is a complete game, so there was probably no interest to
continue working on it. We are aware of the removal of obsolete
libraries and intend to request their removal from Debian sometime
between now and the next Debian freeze. Personally I wanted to give
people more time to fix those bugs because they tend to notice such bugs
rather late and porting software to new libraries is a non-trivial task.
We could fix one game so far thanks to Juhanni (pegsolitaire).

I don't have any objections if you want to remove them right now but I
think you can achieve the removal of esound/Gnome2 libs anyway and you
don't have to wait for us. Just point the ftp team to this bug report.
This is true for all affected games maintained by the games team. They
will be broken in unstable but I think this might even raise more
awareness. Testing users won't be affected.

Regards,

Markus

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