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

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 08 Mar 2025 at 14:27:24 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 at 11:09:30 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> > > 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).
> 
> Actually,
> gnome has Depends: shotwell | gnome-photos (>= 3.36)
> cinnamon-desktop-environment has Depends: shotwell | gnome-photos
> 
> Do you think it's fine to leave it like that for trixie?

I think that should be OK (apt and therefore tasksel will prefer to
install shotwell if I understand correctly). I thought for a moment
that the alternative might be there because something about shotwell
is non-portable, but it seems shotwell is available on all release
architectures anyway.

It might be more predictable if we drop the alternative, though.

    smcv