Bug#885108: inkscape: Consider dropping gnome-pkg-tools Build-Depends

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:01:02PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> inkscape was recently demoted to Ubuntu universe. (It appears to have
> been kept in "main" a bit longer than necessary.)

It's not like I diskliked having it in main, mind you! :)
(wouldn't that imply that Canonical was supposed to provide support for
it?)

> Unless a package opts in or out, main packages participate in Ubuntu's
> language packs and universe packages don't. I don't see a particular
> reason to opt in here.

I know nothing about l10n/i18n.  Do somebody need to do anything
special to get the translations out of the langpack?
Also, what about anything that was done through
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape ?

> Therefore, feel free to drop the gnome-pkg-tools Build-Depends added
> in inkscape 0.91-11. There's no urgency although I think we should at
> least do a rebuild of inkscape in Ubuntu before 18.04 LTS is released.

Sure, I'll make sure it gets done before bionic releases.

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