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

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
>   3) Take libart under our umbrella.  (Provided it's a viable option
>      in the first place.)

As you can see, libart has had zero maintenance since 2010:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/libart_lgpl/

You are correct that libart was not mentioned in that email. But if we
can remove libgnome, then it probably makes sense to remove
libgnomecanvas too and if we can remove that, then this is one of the
only packages left using libart. If you're really curious, the only
other issues I am aware of for libart's removal are
https://bugs.debian.org/885787 and https://bugs.debian.org/885800 (and
dia is unmaintained).

Anyway, we'll check in again later once more of the libgnome stack is
removed. Consider this to be early warning. :)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha