Bug#886063: libgnomecanvas: Don't release with Buster

[Niels Thykier]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:24:21 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 at 02:50:40 -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote:
> > "libgnomecanvas is not related to libgnome in any way despite the
> > name. It provides a high-performance canvas widget for GTK2, it is the
> > standard canvas widget for GTK2. There is no good replacement for
> > GTK3. I am not aware of any serious issues with it apart from it being
> > old."
> 
> The major issue with libgnomecanvas is that it has no upstream maintainer
> (#895350). Its upstream git repository is marked as archived:
> 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/libgnomecanvas/
> 
> and it has had no non-translation commits since January 2011.
> 
> The Debian GNOME maintainers do not have the bandwidth to maintain many
> packages in Debian 10 'buster' that are dead upstream. Adrian Bunk and
> Gert Wollny have expressed interest in taking over maintenance (see
> #895247), but have not yet uploaded a version setting either of them
> as maintainers.
> 
> My main concern about this package being adopted is that its name and
> current package description do not indicate that it is no longer
> maintained or recommended by the GNOME project. Any new maintainer
> should fix this.
> 
>     smcv
> 
> 

Hi,

If it is still a goal to get libgnomecanvas removed from buster, then
the remaining reverse dependencies should be migrated away from
libgnomecanvas to something else.  At the moment, I see the following 4
reverse dependencies that could prevent the removal of libgnomecanvas
*without* any RC bugs against them:

"""

amide: amide
frama-c: frama-c
lablgtk2: liblablgtk2-gnome-ocaml
          liblablgtk2-gnome-ocaml-dev
ocamlgraph: ocamlgraph-editor [amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x]

"""
(NB: lablgtk2 has #885677 which may count as such; not entirely sure)

If you would like libgnomecanvas removed, then please ensure that all
reverse dependencies have RC bugs requesting them to move away from this
package.

Thanks,
~Niels