Control: severity -1 serious Hello Tomasz Buchert,
Thanks for your followup. On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 09:31:57AM +0200, Tomasz Buchert wrote: > Hi Laurent, > verbiste depends on libgnomeui-2.0 which then depends on gnome-vfs. Right, and both of these are deprecated and set for removal. > The package does not build anymore if I remove the libgnomeui As Laurent already pointed out you'll need to do (trivial) code changes as well. > dependency, but if in the process of your transition you are going to > fix deps of libgnomeui, then this package will profit too. Maybe I'm misinterpretting you here, but sounds like you don't actually want to maintain this package? If so please replace your name with Debian QA in the Maintainer field so others can work on this package. Anyway, since you atleast replied it was some kind of indication that the package isn't completely abandoned and I've thus looked into helping you out fixing the issue. I see multiple ways to accomplish that so please help me out answering the following questions. What is the point of building both a gtk and a gnome version? Porting the gnome version would mean replacing libgnome* usage with pure gtk+ usage, basically providing 2 gtk versions which seems kind of pointless to me. Maybe we should instead just drop the verbiste-gnome package and provide a transitional package that pulls in the verbiste(-gtk) package (and have that provide /usr/bin/verbiste). Then you can (optionally) work with your upstream to improve the gtk version.... For example the function to provide a default icon is available as gtk_window_set_default_icon_from_file(...) and you could chose to migrate ~/.gnome2/verbiste to either dconf/gsettings or just continue using it as is eg. by opening it via libinih(-dev) or similar. Btw, while looking at this I noticed there are missing build-dependencies (which is a policy violation of its own). You don't declare libgtk2.0-dev and/or libxml2-dev as build- dependencies but configure explicitly/unconditionally checks for these and bails out if missing. (I figured we'll fix this while at it so didn't bother filing a separate bug report for this.) The removal of the deprecated libraries are upon us now, so looking to hear from you ASAP if we're going to work this out before verbiste is removed together with the rest of the unmaintained/abandoned packages. Regards, Andreas Henriksson
