[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#981025: network-manager-gnome: depends on transitional libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 package

[Simon McVittie]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 18:28:30 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 25.01.21 um 18:22 schrieb Martin-Éric Racine:
> > In that case, a massive bin-NMU of GNOME packages might be in order.

You're welcome to ask the release team to binNMU packages that depend on
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0, but I don't know whether they will be willing to do
so at this stage in the freeze process. This isn't a "real transition"
in the sense that the SONAME being depended on actually changes, but it
does cause a lot of packages to change, and might break non-binNMU-safe
dependencies.

I have no intention of removing libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 or
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 before bullseye, and I have no intention of even
*trying* to remove them before binNMUing dependent packages.

These are not "important"-severity bugs: I don't think we can claim that
an unneeded (indirect) dependency on libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 is
"a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package", when it
doesn't put the package at any realistic risk of being removed.

As noted in devref[1], please check with debian-devel before
mass-bug-filing.

    smcv

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.en.html#reporting-lots-of-bugs-at-once-mass-bug-filing