Bug#839444: libgda5: FTBFS: tests failures annotations:

[Andreas Henriksson]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 08:34:16AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> severity 839444 serious
> thanks
[...]
> > If you can reproduce the problem, please provide a backtrace from the
> > segmentation fault.
> 
> I can (on two different machines)

... but you still don't want to provide a backtrace?

Ok, then lets focus on trying to get libgda5 removed. Noone loves it
anyway.

Unfortunately a simple RC bug won't do it because of key-packages, so
here's a summary on how we could help it along:

libgda5 has 2 rdeps: anjuta and gtranslator. Both of these have gda as
(build-time) non-optional dependencies, so both need to go.

gtranslator has no rdeps but anjuta unfortunately does.

I could probably replace gnome-devel dependency on anjuta with
gnome-builder (even though it might not be mature enough and provide all
the same things but whatever), which should resolve one of the
key-packages related removal blockers.

There's also libanjuta-3-0 with a few rdeps but it seems to boil down to
gtkpod (and some gtkpod support libraries).

Once gtkpod, anjuta and gtranslator are gone libgda5 is still a
key-package on its own because of 12000+ installs according to popcon.
Not sure why that is..... So still needs manual hinting to be removed.
Still seems doable though unless I missed something (which seems likely
given none of the listed rdeps motivates the high install count of
libgda5 and I find it unlikely people just manually install the library
directly).

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson