Source: xqf
Severity: important
Tags: sid forky
Control: block 976677 by -1
User: [email protected]
Usertags: oldlibs gdk-pixbuf-xlib

xqf Depends and Build-Depends on packages from gdk-pixbuf-xlib, which is 
no longer maintained upstream and has been archived, meaning that issue 
reports and contributions are no longer accepted.

The readme of the archived project says:

    No newly written code should ever use this library.

    If your existing code depends on gdk-pixbuf-xlib, then you're strongly
    encouraged to port away from it.

This deprecation applies to <gdk-pixbuf-xlib/*.h> and the 
gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0 pkg-config module, which means the 
libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev and libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 Debian packages.

Please try to avoid this dependency. Copying the necessary functions 
into the xqf source would probably be better than having the external 
dependency, at this point.

Thanks,
    smcv

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