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

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

gnome-photos was in GNOME Core previously but it was one of the early
GNOME 3 apps dependent on tracker instead of an open dialog, etc., and
it wasn't universally liked. So we used an alternative dependency. I
guess we might drop Shotwell from 'gnome' for Forky as Loupe gains
more features. Loupe doesn't do all of what Shotwell does but it may
do enough for casual use.

For 'gnome' now, let's demote shotwell to Recommends and remove the
alternate dependency gnome-photos.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha