Source: cinnamon-desktop-environment Version: 3.4 Severity: important User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs python-wnck gnome-python-desktop
cinnamon-desktop-environment Recommends hamster-applet, which uses many unmaintained GNOME 2 libraries that should not be in Debian 10. It is unmaintained upstream (latest release 2010, Debian has a git snapshot from 2012) and appears to have been superseded by <https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster>, which has itself been superseded by a more modular rewrite that uses several <https://github.com/projecthamster/> repositories. This Recommends is probably also contributing to hamster-applet's artificially high popcon score, which has led to it being treated as a key package and not eligible for autoremoval (the GNOME metapackages in jessie also depended on it, which has also increased its historical popcon score). If hamster-applet gets fixed and modernized (PyGI, GTK+ 3, GSettings instead of GConf, and other non-deprecated dependencies), this bug can be closed. This does not seem particularly likely to happen, but it could. If hamster-applet is removed from testing/unstable, then this bug will be raised to a release-critical severity (as soon as hamster-applet leaves main, this will become 'serious' severity due to Policy ยง2.2.1). Regards, smcv
