[Pkg-geany-team] Bug#1041807: geany-plugins: build-depends on libwnck-dev, and indirectly on GTK 2

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Jul 23 19:21:38 BST 2023


Source: geany-plugins
Version: 1.38+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: gtk2 oldlibs
Control: block 967592 by -1
Control: block 947713 by -1

geany-plugins build-depends on libwnck-dev, which in turn depends on GTK 2.

GTK 2 was superseded by GTK 3 in 2011 (see
<https://bugs.debian.org/947713>). It has been discontinued by its upstream
developer and no longer receives any upstream maintenance.

None of the built binary packages depend on libwnck22, which makes me
think that this build-dependency is probably unnecessary? If so, please
remove it, bringing us one step closer to being able to clean up this
technical debt.

Thanks,
    smcv



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