Bug#895025: deprecate/remove libindicate in Debian

[Mike Gabriel]

Package: src:libindicate
Severity: serious
User: pkg-ayatana-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: ubuntuindicatorremoval





In Debian the following packages still build-depend on libindicate*-dev:

libindicate5
  Reverse Depends: gir1.2-indicate-0.7 (>= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-dev (= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk3 (>= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk3-3 (>= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: libindicate0.1-cil (>= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: pidgin-libnotify (>= 0.14-9)
  Reverse Depends: python-indicate (= 0.6.92-6)
gir1.2-indicate-0.7
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-dev (= 0.6.92-6)
libindicate-dev
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk-dev (= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk3-dev (= 0.6.92-6)
libindicate-gtk-dev
libindicate-gtk3-dev
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk-dev (= 0.6.92-6)
libindicate-gtk3
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk-dev (= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk0.1-cil (>= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: pidgin-libnotify (>= 0.14-9)
  Reverse Depends: python-indicate (>= 0.6.92-6)
libindicate-gtk0.1-cil
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk0.1-cil-dev (= 0.6.92-6)
libindicate-gtk0.1-cil-dev
pidgin-libnotify
python-indicate
  Reverse Depends: mopidy-mpris (1.3.1-1)
mopidy-mpris
libindicate-gtk3-3
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk3-dev (= 0.6.92-6)
libindicate0.1-cil
  Reverse Depends: libindicate-gtk0.1-cil (= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: libindicate0.1-cil-dev (= 0.6.92-6)
  Reverse Depends: smuxi-frontend-gnome (>= 1.0.7-2)
libindicate0.1-cil-dev
smuxi-frontend-gnome
  Reverse Depends: smuxi (= 1.0.7-2)
smuxi



Greets,
Mike
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The libindicate shared library (don't confuse with libindicator!!!) has no functionality in Debian at this point anymore. It probably never had. In Ubuntu, it was only used (some time ago) by the messages system indicator. However, the libindicate approach got substituted there by the libmessaging-menu API. In Ubuntu, the libindicate shared lib has nealy no reverse dependencies anymore. We should work on this in Debian, too, and finally remove the package. So, in a nutshell, these packages need to be addressed: smuxi, pidgin-libnotify and mopidy-mpris require changes to have libindicate removed from Debian.

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