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

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 13/01/2025 15:40, Simon McVittie ha scritto:
> Source: libgnomekbd
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream wontfix
> X-Debbugs-Cc: gnome-screensaver at packages.debian.org, cinnamon at packages.debian.org, xapp at packages.debian.org, budgie-desktop at packages.debian.org
>
> GNOME no longer uses libgnomekbd, and its git repository has been moved
> to https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/libgnomekbd and archived. This means
> that it no longer accepts issue reports or merge requests, even if a
> serious problem is found.
>
> The remaining projects that depend on libgnomekbd appear to be
> gnome-screensaver (which has, itself, been archived upstream: #895477)
> and several Cinnamon packages.
>
> Perhaps the Cinnamon team would be interested in forking libgnomekbd and
> becoming its new upstream maintainers? If not, then we should eventually
> remove it from Debian.
>
> (X-Debbugs-Cc to budgie-desktop because some budgie-desktop packages
> seem to depend on gnome-screensaver, and therefore indirectly depend on
> libgnomekbd.)
>
>      smcv

On cinnamon will be probably replaced as part of wayland support 
(https://github.com/linuxmint/wayland/issues/14), it is not defined yet 
when, at the moment wayland support does not seem to be a priority, even 
if it is slowly proceeding with something in each new major version.

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