Bug#1018115: cheese: depends on unmaintained clutter-1.0 and related libraries

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM Jeremy Bicha <jeremy at bicha.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> > cheese was part of the GNOME metapackages in Debian 12, but was replaced
> > by gnome-snapshot in Debian 13.
> >
> > >There is a merge request upstream, but nobody seems to be reviewing it.
> >
> > I think at this point we can safely come to the conclusion that it isn't
> > happening.
>
> I think it's likely that cheese will be archived by GNOME, so I'm
> waiting for a decision there. If GNOME archives it, I think there is a
> strong case for us to remove it from Debian.

Cheese has been archived upstream, so I'm filing the Debian removal bug now.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cheese

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha