[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: gnustep-back
Version: 0.25.0-2
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs
Tags: sid buster patch

As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with
the old libgnome (and related) libraries. These libraries have been
deprecated and unmaintained for several years.

Could you please help by removing the art backend package? It doesn't
have any reverse-depends in Debian.

I am attaching a patch to help with this (it applies against current
0.25.0-2 but you may want to use 'patch -p1' instead of 'git am' to
apply it against git master since I think there's some "fuzz").

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/10/msg00299.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha
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