Bug#1113815: libxklavier: unmaintained upstream; upstream repository is archived and read-only

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Wed Sep 3 15:10:41 BST 2025


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On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 00:20 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> For historical reasons it is maintained in Debian by the GNOME team, 
> even though it is no longer used by GNOME. It *is* used by quite a lot 
> of older projects, some of which are included in XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE, 
> and GNOME Flashback. Could the maintainer team of one of the other 
> desktops perhaps volunteer to look after it?
> 
> I recently made some janitorial changes related to 
> GObject-Introspection, but I would prefer someone who knows how to 
> exercise this package's functionality to test and upload the new 
> version.
> 
> Ideally those projects would move away from it, because it's been 
> unmaintained for about a decade.

Hey Simon, thanks for reaching out. I've reported upstream bugs against the
various projects under the Xfce umbrella, so let's see what happens.

Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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