Bug#1099753: gnome-photos: unmaintained upstream; upstream repository is archived and read-only

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 at 11:09:30 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> GNOME archived the gnome-photos project today. That means it is no
> longer possible to submit bug reports, bug fixes, merge requests, or
> translation updates to GNOME.
> 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-photos
> 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/1920
> 
> gnome-photos was actually removed from Testing for almost the entire
> trixie development cycle but re-entered Testing 2 months ago with an
> NMU to ignore a failing test.
> 
> I think it would be nicer to not remove gnome-photos from trixie
> because we are entering the trixie freezes. However, I would like to
> remove gnome-photos from Debian shortly after trixie is released. This
> would allow us to remove the unmaintained libdazzle.
> 
> Currently, 'gnome' Depends on gnome-photos and
> cinnamon-desktop-environment Recommends it.

If we know that gnome-photos is going to be removed from forky, then I
think the gnome and cinnamon-desktop-environment metapackages should
probably be updated before trixie to stop including gnome-photos in new
installations (it could be a Suggests, or it could be removed completely).

    smcv