Bug#868395: libgnome2-perl: Please drop the (build-)dependency against gnome-vfs

[intrigeri]

Hi,

gregor herrmann:
> Or did you mean the build and runtime dependency on
> libgnome2-vfs-perl?

> Ah, the generated Depends contains libgnomevfs2-0, which sounds more
> like gnome-vfs ...
>  
> Which seems to be useless?

> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if
> debian/libgnome2-perl/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24/auto/Gnome2/Gnome2.so was
> not linked against libgnomevfs-2.so.0 (it uses none of the library's symbols)

This bug is the only blocker for #868398 AFAICT, so let's try to
simply remove libgnome2-perl from the archive during the Buster cycle.
It's been obsolete for too long.

$ reverse-depends -b libgnome2-perl  
Reverse-Build-Depends-Indep
===========================
* greenwich
* isenkram

$ reverse-depends libgnome2-perl 
Reverse-Depends
===============
* greenwich
* podbrowser
* shutter
* yarssr


So let's see:

1. greenwich: "graphical whois client for GNOME", last upload in 2012,
   upstream home page is not available at the moment. David, is there
   a chance that greenwich stops depending on obsolete GNOME 2 stuff
   during the Buster cycle, or should we remove it from the archive,
   or do you have another idea in mind?

2. podbrowser: "Documentation browser for Perl", last upload in 2010,
   last upstream release in 2007. Jeffrey, is there a chance that
   greenwich stops depending on obsolete GNOME 2 stuff during the
   Buster cycle, or should we remove it from the archive, or do you
   have another idea in mind?

3. isenkram: actively developed upstream and in Debian. Petter, I see
   that in 0.30 you "Dropped obsolete dependency libgnome2-perl";
   perhaps the build-dep is obsolete too? If not, any plan to drop it
   during the Buster cycle?

4. shutter & yarssr: 

   Can be removed IMO, see
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868398#15 for details.

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri