Bug#1092927: libgnomekbd: unmaintained upstream; upstream repository is archived and read-only

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 at 20:56:53 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
>I'm raising the severity because it looks doable for libgnomekbd to be
>removed from Debian before Debian 14 is released.
>budgie-control-center in experimental no longer uses libgnomekbd.
>
>Cinnamon 6.6 no longer uses libgnomekbd according to
>https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena_whatsnew.php
>
>Cinnamon has a lot of components so I don't know if every piece was
>ported away from libgnomekbd yet. (I know that cinnamon-screensaver
>still uses caribou for instance.). Practically, libgnomekbd won't be
>removed from Testing as long as Cinnamon uses it, according to the
>current way Debian defines key packages.

I asked dak what components are affected:
https://people.debian.org/~smcv/temp/2025/mbf-libgnomekbd/

and in addition to cinnamon-screensaver, the answer is:

cinnamon
cinnamon-control-center
cinnamon-settings-daemon
gnome-screensaver
xapp

I'll open bugs if they don't already exist.

     smcv