Source: open-vm-tools
Severity: important
Tags: sid forky
Control: block 976677 by -1
User: [email protected]
Usertags: oldlibs gdk-pixbuf-xlib
open-vm-tools 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no longer maintained upstream and has been archived, meaning that issue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.
open-vm-tools doesn't seem to have a runtime dependency on
libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0, so it is possible that the Build-Depends is
obsolete and no longer necessary. Please check whether it can be
removed.
Thanks,
smcv
