[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#780141: libdbus-glib-1-2: Mark as deprecated

[Simon McVittie]

Control: tags 780141 + confirmed

On 09/03/15 17:15, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> it would seem to make sense to move dbus-glib to the
> oldlibs section

The package maintainer can't actually do that; we'd have to ask the
archive administrators ("ftpmasters") to change it. I'll probably do
that after Debian 8 is released (it's currently in freeze, so I can't
make non-critical changes in testing/unstable right now).

> and mention that it's been deprecated in favor of the
> functionality added to glib in 2.26 in the description.

I already did this in experimental, in fact. Again, this won't reach
testing/unstable until after Debian 8 is out.

> (Yes, I know it wasn't marked as deprecated yet in 0.100, but it seems
> to have been effectively deprecated at least as far back as 2011-04-04
> <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12773>.)

As both the Debian maintainer and the upstream unmaintainer (as in "it
is unmaintained, and I am the unmaintainer") I am well aware of its
status, and glad to see its users are getting the message :-)

    S