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

[Bastian Germann]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:24:45 +0200 Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
> 2) The xlib backend comes with an additional tool: font_cacher.  It's
>    launched automatically by the backend and generates the cache as
>    archived data in ~/GNUstep/Library/Fonts/Cache.  It has the same
>    problem as the gnustep-back-common's postinst: the cache must be
>    updated manually when a font package is installed or removed.
>    While this can be solved for art by fixing the fontconfig bug, I
>    don't see a way to do it here.  Slightly archaic even for me.
> 
>    There's a manpage to be written; that's easy.  The font_cacher tool
>    must be shipped in the -common package as the -xlib package will be
>    versioned.

The xlib backend is now packaged for some years. Please drop the art backend package.
dia is in the process of being adopted and will also drop its art dependency,
so we should make this happen as soon as possible so that bookworm can come without libart.