Bug#870418: Precarious status of Shutter in Debian

[Emmanuele Bassi]

Hi;

On 20 October 2017 at 13:24, Dominique Dumont <domi.dumont at free.fr> wrote:
> [ re-sent with right From address ]
>
> Hello
>
> Debian is moving away from Gnome2::VFS [1] . This obsolete module will be
> removed from next release of Debian.
>
> Unfortunately, shutter, a very nice Gtk2 screenshot application,  depends on
> Gnome::VFS, which means that shutter will be removed from Debian unless this
> dependency is removed from shutter [2].
>
> I guess that the options are:
> * port shutter from Gnome2::VFS to GVFS or GIO
> * replace Gnome2::VFS with other Perl modules.
>
> Unfortunately, Debian perl team do not have the skills or bandwidth to work on
> this port, I hope that someone on this list will be able to help.
>
> Does anyone on this list have better ideas ?

Considering that:

 - upstream development seems dead
 - Shutter uses GTK+ 2.x, which is the old-stable version of GTK
 - Shutter is also heavily tied to X11 and does not work on Wayland

I'm not entirely sure why you think the whole thing shouldn't be
retired altogether.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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