Source: libayatana-appindicator Severity: normal Tags: upstream wontfix libayatana-appindicator appears to have been deprecated upstream and now makes applications that use it log a warning:
pasystray[6472]: libayatana-appindicator is deprecated. Please use libayatana-appindicator-glib in newly written code. I've opened this bug already tagged wontfix, on the assumption that the deprecation is intentional and won't change. I've found this to be a useful representation of intentionally deprecated libraries in the GNOME team, because it provides somewhere to track how many packages need to be fixed before the deprecated library can be removed, and can be raised to serious to trigger autoremovals from testing if the maintainer wants that to happen. If the intention is to phase this out and eventually remove it from Debian, I think it would be useful to do a usertagged mass bug filing on the packages that depend on libayatana-appindicator, with bug reports looking something like <https://bugs.debian.org/1079406> (which can then be escalated to important and eventually serious as progress is made towards removing it). Would you like help with that? Is there any migration documentation that can be pointed to in bug reports, equivalent to the porting guide mentioned in #1079406? It would probably also be useful to move the deprecated libraries from Section: {libdevel,libs,introspection} into Section: oldlibs. Unfortunately a package maintainer cannot do this themselves: instead it's necessary to send a request to the ftp team, similar to <https://bugs.debian.org/1067833>. Are any of the other libraries in the ayatana family deprecated? (Perhaps src:libdbusmenu, which seems to be quite dead at this point?) Thanks, smcv
