Bug#947522: gbrainy: build-depends on deprecated gnome-doc-utils

[Jordi Mas]

This is no longer required by the upstream package. Debian control file
should be update to remove this dependency.

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 11:24 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> Source: gbrainy
> Version: 1:2.4.1-2
> Severity: important
> Control: block 936625 by -1
> Control: block 889019 by -1
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs gnome-doc-utils
>
> This package Build-Depends on gnome-doc-utils. gnome-doc-utils is a
> deprecated package of documentation utilities. Its most recent upstream
> release was in 2012, with most changes in its git repository since then
> being translation updates. The GNOME team do not consider gnome-doc-utils
> to be suitable for release in Debian 11 'bullseye'.
>
> The supported replacement is yelp.m4 in yelp-tools, as used
> in many GNOME 3 packages. A porting guide is available:
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/NewDocumentationInfrastructure
>
> gnome-doc-utils relies on Python 2 code that seems unlikely to be
> converted to Python 3, so bug #936625 (part of the effort to remove
> Python 2 from Debian for Debian 11 'bullseye') has its severity set to
> serious. This means that this bug is highly likely to be elevated to
> serious severity at some point in future.
>
> Please convert this package to use yelp-tools, or if necessary remove
> the documentation processing entirely.
>
> Thanks,
>     smcv
>
>
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