Hi! The Debian GNOME team has continued working on removing obsolete GNOME 2 libraries and we wanted to provide an update on our progress and let you know what's next.
We have identified the list of libraries we are targeting for removal from Buster and have filed bugs for affected packages. Several libraries have already been removed from Buster. Soon, we intend to raise the severity of the remaining bugs to serious to try to finish up these removals from Debian Testing. Honestly, the best option for many of these packages is for them to be ported to GTK3. If you are the maintainer for one of these packages that is no longer maintained upstream and if you don't intend to port it to deprecated libraries, you can help us out by filing a removal bug for the package. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha References ========== Previous email https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/10/msg00299.html Debian GNOME's "oldlibs" bug list: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-gnome-maintaine rs%2Alists.alioth.debian.org;tag=oldlibs UDD view of "oldlibs" bug list: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=oldlibs&user=pkg-gn ome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org gtk2 to gtk3 migration guide: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html gconf to gsettings migration guide: https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html Affected libraries are listed below. Sorry I don't have a dak+dd-list prepared but someone may want to make one. Removed from Debian ------------------- libunique3 Removed from Testing -------------------- esound gconfmm2.6 gksu gnome-keyring-sharp gnome-python gnome-python-desktop goocanvas goffice-0.8 libgnomecanvasmm2.6 libgksu libgoo-canvas-perl pygoocanvas pygtksourceview python-gtkglext1 pyorbit python-poppler Almost Removed from Testing --------------------------- libglademm2.4 vte webkitgtk Raising severity to serious soon -------------------------------- clutter-gesture gnome-sharp2 gnome-vfs libbonobo libbonoboui libgnome libgnomecanvas libgnomeui libgnome-keyring libunique rarian libgnome2-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-gconf-perl libgnome2-wnck-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgtk2-appindicator-perl libgtk2-unique-perl Also aiming for Buster ---------------------- gconf libart-lgpl pygtk