Bug#1127457: Apps that use evince libraries will fail to build until the gtk3 libraries are reintroduced

Jeremy Bícha jbicha at debian.org
Mon Feb 9 03:31:20 GMT 2026


Source: evince
Version: 49~alpha-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Control: affects -1 src:denemo src:gnome-sushi src:phosh
Control: block -1 by 1127455

There was a little confusion around how to handle evince with the way
the new DFSG team is working. evince made it through binary NEW while
evince-gtk3 was rejected from source NEW a few days later. They have
the same debian/copyright but debian/copyright was deemed not good
enough for evince-gtk3. We'll make some updates to debian/copyright
and reupload soon. Sorry for the disruption. I expect evince-gtk3 to
make it through the queue quickly since this is its RC blocker bug
which will give it a higher score on the DFSG team dashboard.

Packages that use the evince gtk3 libraries are failing to build from
source because libevince-dev is installing the new gtk4 libraries.
There will be a new libevince-gtk3-dev that will install the gtk3
libraries.

https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-evince.html

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha



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