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

[Simon McVittie]

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current package description do not indicate that it is no longer
maintained or recommended by the GNOME project.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