Bug#868418: gnome-hearts: Please drop the (build-)dependency against gnome-vfs

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello bigon,

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 01:40:01PM +0200, bigon at debian.org wrote:
> Source: gnome-hearts
> Version: 0.3-2.2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: sid buster
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: gnome-vfs-removal oldlibs
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> Your package is {build-}depending against gnome-vfs which is
> deprecated for quite some times now and has been replaced by gvfs.
[...]

The gnome-hearts package doesn't seem to use gnome-vfs directly
but rather gains the dependency via libgnomeui which lists it in
Requires in the pkg-config file, which leads to "leaking" the
linking to users like gnome-hearts.

Solving it should thus be accomplished by porting gnome-hearts
away from libgnomeui which is also deprecated.

Unfortunately gnome-hearts upstream urls
 http://www.gnome-hearts.org/download/ (as documented in debian/copyright)
 http://www.jejik.com/gnome-hearts/ (which ArchLinux documents as Upstream URL)
are both dead.

The primary maintainer doesn't seem to have touched the package since
2008.

Maybe it's time to just RM gnome-hearts? If someone wants to revive it
I think they should do so by becoming the new upstream for it.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson