Bug#1082010: libgdata: unmaintained upstream

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 8:45 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> I think we should seriously consider removing this from trixie.

My opinion is that libgdata is the most critical thing blocking
removal of libsoup2.4 from Debian. I was intending to have it removed
from Testing after Trixie is released if
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgdata/-/merge_requests/49 hadn't
been resolved by then.

https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libsoup3.html
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=libsoup2

I think the Google Drive integration is very useful and it would be a
shame to lose it. There were other apps that had extra Google
integration like gnome-photos but those were lost when libgdata wasn't
ported to libsoup3 and apps can't directly link against libsoup2.4 and
libsoup3.

Except for the libsoup issue, I didn't have other problems with libgdata.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha