So I guess it's time that we should give an answer to Adrian Bunk about his ITA bugs for gconf, libgnomecanvas, pygtk, and libart-lgpl.
The gconf ITA doesn't seem needed to me. The only things left in Testing depending on gconf are eclipse (huge pain to deal with) and pulseaudio (migration in progress). I think stuff in Unstable really needs to be ported away from gconf. Because of that big list, I guess gconf will be in unstable for a while. The pygtk ITA also doesn't seem needed. According to https://bugs.debian.org/895248 he acknowledges that pygtk should be removed in bullseye. Based on the packages in Testing still depending on pygtk, it looks like removing pygtk from Buster isn't reasonable. So pygtk still needs to be maintained for Buster and we should probably be the ones to do it still. Part of my intent with the pygtk RC bugs was to start the long process of pushing gtk2 out of Debian. And I hoped that Python packages would be relatively easy to port to gtk3 and GObject Introspection. And I'm ok with old unmaintained apps getting pushed out of Debian. That leaves libgnomecanvas and libart-lgpl. libgnomecanvas is gtk2 so we really need to eventually be encouraging developers to stop using it and it will need to get pushed out of Debian eventually. Maybe that should happen for Bullseye too and maybe we should keep maintainership until then. Once libgnomecanvas is removed, there's only like 2 packages using libart-lgpl: dia and python-renderpm. So I guess I don't see a strong need for him to take over maintainership there either. References ---------------- https://bugs.debian.org/895246 https://bugs.debian.org/895247 https://bugs.debian.org/895248 https://bugs.debian.org/895249 Jeremy
