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

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> 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 gnome-screensaver (which has, itself, been archived upstream: #895477)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.)

I didn't look at the code but I noticed that this week Debian MATE
began including
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/matekbd-keyboard-display which uses the
older fork of libgnomekbd, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libmatekbd

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha