Bug#885563: vte: Do not release with Buster

[Niels Thykier]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:05:02 -0500 Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: vte
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid buster
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs vte
> 
> The old vte 0.28 series has not had a release since GNOME3's release in 2011.
> 
> Please port your app to the vte2.91 source. That also means porting
> your app to gtk3. gtk3 was declared stable over a year ago with the
> 3.22 series. (There also have not been any gtk2 maintenance releases
> since that time.)
> 
> We do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with the old src: vte.
> 
> On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
> Jeremy Bicha
> 
> 

Hi,

AFAICT, the cdebconf-gtk-terminal bug (#887649) has not been updated in
the past 8 months.  Is it still realistic to remove vte before the
transition freeze (2019-01-12)?

Thanks,
~Niels