Bug#974870: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev: Plans for Xlib API deprecation

[Eduard Bloch]

Package: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
Version: 2.40.0+dfsg-5
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

it looks like upstream support for Xlib API adapters is officially
declared deprecated now. For details, see
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gdk-pixbuf-xlib . Since this affects
some application packages in Debian, please prepare documentation of
this issue, maybe there should be even a warning of some kind printed
through pkg-config or GCC warnings (although this is bad, of course,
would break -Werror using packages).

Best regards,
Eduard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev depends on:
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0  2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0    2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin  2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii  libglib2.0-dev        2.66.2-1
ii  libpng-dev            1.6.37-3
ii  libx11-dev            2:1.6.12-1
ii  shared-mime-info      2.0-1

libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev recommends no packages.

libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev suggests no packages.

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