Removing obsolete GNOME libraries

[intrigeri]

Hi GNOME team!

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (2017-10-17):
> We (the Debian GNOME team) have been removing obsolete, unmaintained GNOME
> libraries for several years. Now we think it's time to do another step in this
> never-ending task and remove libgnome and friends, which have been unmaintained
> upstream since 7 years ago, as those libraries are from the GNOME 2 days and are
> unused in the GNOME 3 platform.

Thanks for caring.

2.5 months later, here's an update on the pkg-perl side. There's been
good progress since I've started working on this in July:

 - Quite a few obsolete packages got removed from sid already.

 - I've requested removal today for 2 of the 3 remaining blocker
   packages (perlpanel, yarssr).

 - The only remaining blocker package is shutter. I've pinged the bug
   today which prompted Dominique Dumont to send a sort of "last call"
   message about it to debian-devel@ (thanks!). If there's no
   substantial progress on this front within a couple months, I'll
   propose shutter is removed from sid.

Once shutter has been fixed or removed, I'll request removal of
a great bunch of libgtk2-*-perl and libgnome*-perl packages, which
should complete the pkg-perl part of this clean up operation. If I've
missed anything that should be done on this front, let me know :)

Cheers,
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intrigeri