Bug#933548: transition: gnome-desktop3

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Oct 2019 at 08:48:35 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
>> The odd one out is libgtk2-perl which fails test 44:
> ...
>> GdkPixbuf [ warning ] Inline XPM data is broken: Invalid XPM header
>> not ok 44 - Don't crash on partial pixmap data

> I think this might be caused by better error handling in gdk-pixbuf 2.38.2
> (<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/commit/855ff36b933c078967ebbcf6d31799efccf9485d>),
> which I uploaded to make gdk-pixbuf silence the GTimeVal deprecation
> warnings in its own animation API, so that it wouldn't trigger -Werror
> in other packages if they don't actively use the animation API.

FWIW, libgtk2-perl is going away in Bullseye; most of its
reverse-dependencies were either ported to GTK 3, or not shipped in
Buster thanks to RC bugs I had filed, or removed from the archive.
What's left is tracked there:

 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=912860
 - https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=gtk2-removal&user=debian-perl%40lists.debian.org

The only reason why this set of packages was not automatically removed
from testing yet is that libgtk2-perl is still on the list of key
packages, because it's installed on many machines ("popcon").
I believe this is explained by historical reasons that are invalid
nowadays: this package used to have major reverse dependencies.

So, if it helps make the GNOME 3.34 transitions smoother, IMO it would
be fine to remove libgtk2-perl and its reverse-dependencies from
testing. Some might see this as a heavy hammer approach, but this was
announced a year ago to all affected maintainers; either way, it will
happen during the Bullseye cycle, eventually.

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri