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regarding libgdata: unmaintained upstream
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Source: libgdata
Severity: important
Tags: trixie sid upstream wontfix
User: [email protected]
Usertags: oldlibs
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According to comments on
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgdata/-/merge_requests/47>,
libgdata is effectively unmaintained upstream. I am not aware of any
obvious replacement.
Several packages in Debian depend on it and would be broken by its
removal, but its uses in most of them are trivial/obsolete:
Genuine(?) uses
---------------
- gvfs has a runtime dependency, for the Google Drive plugin. This could
be disabled by compiling with -Dgoogle=false if desired.
- gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect Recommends the GIR typelib. I haven't
investigated further.
Obsolete references
-------------------
- eog-plugins Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but doesn't use it any more
(it's for a plugin for Google PicasaWeb, which was disabled after
Google discontinued the web service).
- gnome-photos Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but doesn't use it any more
(the plugin was disabled in order to avoid a libsoup2 / librest 0.7
dependency)
- grilo-plugins Build-Depends on libgdata-dev, but there's a change staged
in its git repo to remove the build-dependency
- shotwell Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but I don't see any sign that
it's used, maybe a plugin was removed?
- totem Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but I don't see any sign that
it's used, maybe a plugin was removed?
I think we should seriously consider removing this from trixie.
smcv
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Version: 0.18.1-9+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package libgdata has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1111560
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
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