Bug#942135: Сannot install Perl 5.30.0-6 without deleting the libgtk2-perl package

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 08:02:29AM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/perl-gtk2/issues/3
> Control: tag -1 + upstream
> Control: retitle -1 libgtk2-perl: FTBFS with gdk-pixbuf 2.39+ and not built against perl 5.30
> Control: severity -1 serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Dominic Hargreaves:
> > It seems uncertain at the moment - the package has been removed from
> > testing (see #912860) and is clearly not coming back. It's also now FTBFS,
> > possibly related to the Gnome 3 transition?:
> 
> Confirmed: when I noticed that this package was blocking the
> GNOME 3.34 transition, I told the release team that this package would
> be removed from testing later during the Bullseye development cycle
> anyway, so they could as well remove it already.
> 
> At this point, now that my objective of removing the package from
> testing has been met, I have little motivation for fixing it in sid.

A year on, it seems there's almost no realistic prospect of this
package coming back. Shall we remove it from sid?

Dominic