Bug#1017449: nautilus-image-converter: Incompatible with Nautilus 43

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: nautilus-image-converter
Severity: serious
Version: 0.3.1~git20110416-2
Tags: sid bookworm

nautilus-image-converter is incompatible with Nautilus 43. It would
need to be converted to GTK4 to continue to work.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1017448: RM: nautilus-image-converter -- RoQA; unmaintained, doesn't work with nautilus 43

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-CC: nautilus-image-conver...@packages.debian.org

nautilus-image-converter was orphaned years ago. [1]
The upstream project has been archived so is no longer receiving bug
reports or fixes. [2]

Nautilus 43 is a major change to the extension API. It would require
someone to convert nautilus-image-converter to GTK4.

Therefore, please remove nautilus-image-converter from Debian.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/852386
[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/nautilus-image-converter

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#945946: RM: volti -- RoQA; unmaintained Python2 package

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: vo...@packages.debian.org
Affects: src:volti

volti was orphaned in 2016. Its last upstream release was in 2010.

It has low popcon and no remaining reverse-dependencies. It looks
unlikely for it to be ported away from pygtk and Python 2.

Some packages that used to depend on volti swittched to volumeicon-alsa.

Please remove volti from Debian.

References

https://bugs.debian.org/815327

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#941878: RM: vusb-analyzer -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on Python2 and pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: vusb-analy...@packages.debian.org
Affects: src:vusb-analyzer

vusb-analyzer was orphaned in 2011 and has had basic packaging fixes since then.

The packaging itself is fine. The problem is that it uses Python2 and
pygtk and both are in the process of being removed from Debian. There
hasn't been an active upstream in a long time and popcon is low.

Please remove vusb-analyzer from Debian.

Orphaning bug: https://bugs.debian.org/655266

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#941877: volti: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: volti
Version:  0.2.3-7
Severity: serious
Control: block 885135 by -1
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid bullseye

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011. Also, it uses Python2 and Python2 is being removed
from Debian.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings.

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Debian 11 "Bullseye" release as
we're going to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885280: bumping severity of pygtk bugs

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 -buster
Control: block 885135 by -1


As part of the Python2 removal, it is our intent that pygtk will be
removed from Testing before the release of Debian 11 "Bullseye".
Therefore, I am bumping the severity of this bug to Serious to ensure
that there is plenty of warning before the Debian 11 release and to
make the eventual removal of pygtk as smooth as possible.


On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885519: bumping severity of pygtk bugs

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 -buster


As part of the Python2 removal, it is our intent that pygtk will be removed 
from Testing before the release of Debian 11
"Bullseye". Therefore, I am bumping the severity of this bug to Serious to 
ensure that there is plenty of warning before
the Debian 11 release and to make the eventual removal of pygtk as smooth as 
possible.


On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#941819: RM: orbit2 -- RoM; unmaintained GNOME 2 library

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: orb...@packages.debian.org
Affects: src:orbit2
Control: block -1 by 941818

The libgnome collection of libraries have been unmaintained since
GNOME 3 was released in 2011. They were removed from Testing more than
a year ago. Please remove orbit2 from Debian now.

Testing removal bug: https://bugs.debian.org/890459

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#941623: RM: xenwatch -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on libgtk-vnc-1.0-0

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: xenwa...@packages.debian.org

Please remove xenwatch from Debian.

xenwatch was orphaned a decade ago and hasn't had an upstream release
since then.

It is currently blocking the upload of gtk-vnc 1.0.0 because the new
version of gtk-vnc drops the old gtk2 bindings (libgtk-vnc-1.0-0).
xenwatch is the only package in Debian to depend on the gtk2 library.

I've never used xenwatch, but I believe there are alternative
maintained apps in Debian like virt-manager, virt-viewer, and
gnome-boxes.


Orphan bug: https://bugs.debian.org/540593
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-vnc/blob/master/NEWS


Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#914104: RM: gpdftext -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on gconf

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: severity -2 normal
Control: tags -2 -sid -buster
Control: retitle -2 RM: gpdftext -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on gconf
Control: reassign -2 ftp.debian.org

Please remove pdftext from Debian.

It is orphaned and there is no upstream. It is one of
the blockers for the removal of gconf (a Bullseye goal).

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#884923: abiword: CVE-2017-17529

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 3:31 PM Salvatore Bonaccorso  wrote:
> Did you got a chance to ping upstream on that issue and report it?

No, but you can if you like.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/AbiWord is the current source repo, but
you might need to still use bugzilla for reporting issues.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#914104: gpdftext: Intent to remove from Debian

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: reopen -1

Adrian,

I think I understand your objection.

On the other hand, I believe that Neil's opinion ("I agree with
removal") holds greater weight here since he is upstream. Neil and I
are the only people to have ever uploaded gpdftext in Debian.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#914102: gyrus: Intent to remove from Debian

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 6:37 AM Adrian Bunk  wrote:
> gconf usage is not a valid reason for removal from Debian, and
> alternatives like ripping gconf support out of packages or package
> removal are worse than keeping gconf support in a package in buster.
>
> To avoid misunderstandings, it is a bug to still use gconf.
> But not an RC bug for buster.

gyrus is orphaned with no maintainer, no upstream, and very low popcon.

As far as I can tell, nobody cares about this package. Debian doesn't
even have the last upstream release (0.3.12).

As a "QA package", I think you and I have equal standing to file or
oppose RoQA removal bugs.

But since it looks like you are going to oppose this removal, I will
have to concede that it is not worth me fighting with you about it
now. I think the odds are that it will be removed, it just may end up
happening in July instead of in December.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885666: gpdftext: raising severity of gconf dependency bug

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 serious

I am bumping the severity back to serious in preparation for when I
file the removal bug for gpdftext very soon. See https://bugs.debian.org/914104

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#914104: gpdftext: Intent to remove from Debian

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: gpdftext
Version: 0.3.10-3
Severity: serious
Tags: buster sid
X-Debbugs-CC: codeh...@debian.org

gpdftext was orphaned 2 years ago. This is a bit concerning since the
Debian maintainer was also upstream for the package.

Its last maintainer upload was 4 years ago. I did the only QA upload a
year ago to stop using scrollkeeper and modernize the packaging.

gpdftext is one of the last packages in Debian using gconf. Although
gconf will still be in the Debian Buster release, its main purpose
there is to provide the gconf-to-gsettings migration helper.

I intend to remove gpdftext from Debian very soon. Please respond very
promptly if you agree or object to its removal.

References

https://bugs.debian.org/835907 (orphan bug)
https://bugs.debian.org/885666 (gconf dependency bug)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150921230353/https://alioth.debian.org/projects/gpdftext/

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#886065: gyrus: Depends on gconf

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 serious

I am bumping the severity back to serious in preparation for when I
file the removal bug for gyrus very soon. See comment 25 on
https://bugs.debian.org/886065 and https://bugs.debian.org/914102

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

O: gyrus -- GNOME tool for Cyrus-IMAP servers administration

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: retitle -1 O: gyrus -- GNOME tool for Cyrus-IMAP servers administration
Control: noowner -1

I am cancelling the Intent to Adopt because the adopter posted
comment 25 on https://bugs.debian.org/886065

Without a maintainer or adopter, I intend to remove gyrus from
Debian very soon as part of gconf cleanup efforts. Please respond
promptly if you agree or object to this removal.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#914102: gyrus: Intent to remove from Debian

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: gyrus
Version: 0.3.10-3
Severity: serious
Tags: buster sid
X-Debbugs-CC: wvdak...@wilsoft.nl

The last release of gyrus was over 5 years ago. gyrus was orphaned in
Debian around the same time. The only upload since then was to remove
a dependency that was being removed from Debian.

gyrus is one of the last packages in Debian using gconf. Although
gconf will still be in the Debian Buster release, its main purpose
there is to provide the gconf-to-gsettings migration helper.

I intend to remove gyrus from Debian very soon. Please respond very
promptly if you agree or object to its removal.

References

https://bugs.debian.org/732011 (orphan bug)
https://bugs.debian.org/886065 (gconf dependency bug)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gyrus/commits/master

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#911113: O: cellwriter -- grid-entry handwriting input panel

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: wnpp

I intend to orphan the cellwriter package.

It had a trivial RC bug for 9 months ( https://bugs.debian.org/885672 )
and hasn't had a maintainer upload in 5 or 10 years depending on how you
count.

The package description is:
 CellWriter is a grid-entry natural handwriting input panel.
 As you write characters into the cells, your writing is instantly
 recognized at the character level. When you press 'Enter' on the panel,
 the input you entered is sent to the currently focused application as if
 typed on the keyboard.
 .
   * Writer-dependent, learns your handwriting for reliable recognition
   * Correcting preprocessor algorithms account for digitizer noise,
 differing stroke order, direction, and number of strokes
   * Unicode support enables you to write in your native language

Bug#894262: closed by Adrian Bunk (gconf has been adopted)

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:21 AM Adrian Bunk  wrote:
> We have (sometimes quite popular) packages that are unmaintained
> upstream for over 20 years - this is not a problem, actually far
> less of a problem than active upstreams breaking various stuff.
>
> And the package is not unmaintained in Debian, it is maintained by the
> Debian QA Group. This is pretty well maintained by Debian standards,
> it doesn't happen here that a trivial one-line FTBFS fix does not get
> applied for over half a year.

Hmm, so I guess we'll wait 9 months or so and then remove regexxer
from Debian? If so, we could still reopen this bug and just mark it
buster-ignore or something.

Anyway, there are
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gconf
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gconf-editor

Let me know where you want those repos to be moved to.

Because of issues with the svn-to-gconf conversion, tagged releases
might not exactly match what was actually uploaded for that version
number.

I don't think it really makes sense to keep gconf-editor in Debian.
Until you pushed stuff back into Testing, there was only one package
in Testing that used gconf (eclipse). Even now, there's really not
enough in Testing to justify needing to use gconf-editor to change
settings.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#894262: closed by Adrian Bunk (gconf has been adopted)

[Jeremy Bicha]

> From: Adrian Bunk 
> To: 894262-d...@bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 11:01:58 +0300
> Subject: gconf has been adopted
> gconf has been adopted, making it a non-issue when a reverse dependency
> depends on it.

That only fixes one of the issues I have with the package. It is
unmaintained in Debian and upstream. I would like to reopen this bug
and convert it into a removal bug now.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

> cu
> Adrian
>
> --
>
>"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
> of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
>"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
>Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Jeremy Bicha 
> To: submit 
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:38:26 -0400
> Subject: regexxer: Intent to remove package from Debian
> Source: regexxer
> Version: 0.10-3
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid buster
>
> regexxer was orphaned 8 years ago. [1]
>
> Its last upstream release, 0.10, was in 2011.
>
> Although there has been some activity in git [2], I think we can consider 
> this software unmaintained if it never does releases.
>
> It is blocking the eventual removal of gconf from Debian. Therefore, I intend 
> to file a removal bug for this package soon.
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/569345
> [2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/regexxer/log/
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898677: RM: reinteract -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: reinter...@packages.debian.org, la...@debian.org

reinteract was orphaned in 2014 and apparently abandoned upstream
in 2011. It was removed from Testing in January because it depends on
the deprecated pygtk.

Therefore, please remove reinteract from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/590773 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898676: RM: pyneighborhood -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: pyneighborh...@packages.debian.org

pyneighborhood was orphaned in 2009 and apparently abandoned upstream
in 2011. It was removed from Testing in January because it depends on
the deprecated pygtk.

Therefore, please remove pyneighborhood from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/543880 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898601: RM: gquilt -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: gqu...@packages.debian.org

gquilt was orphaned in 2014 and apparently abanoned upstream in 2011.
It was removed from Testing in January because it depends on the
deprecated pygtk.

Therefore, please remove gquilt from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/759142 (orphan bug)
https://bugs.debian.org/885298 (pygtk bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898600: RM: buxon -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: bu...@packages.debian.org

buxon was orphaned in 2013 and has had only one trivial upload since.
It was removed from Testing in January because it depends on the
deprecated pygtk.

Therefore, please remove buxon from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/733528 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898599: RM: apoo -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@packages.debian.org

apoo was orphaned in 2016. It was removed from Testing in January
because it depends on the deprecated pygtk.

Therefore, please remove apoo from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/831680 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#886065: O: gyrus -- GNOME tool for Cyrus-IMAP servers administration

[Jeremy Bicha]

Willem, gyrus was removed from Debian Testing 3 months ago because it
depends on gconf.

It has also been abandoned upstream.

Do you intend to at least port it away from gconf?

It would be helpful if you ported it to gtk3 also.

Otherwise, I think it would be better if we remove gyrus from Debian
Unstable too.

References
---
https://bugs.debian.org/886065
https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/gyrus/log/

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898595: RM: utf8-migration-tool -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: xmms2t...@packages.debian.org

xmms2tray was orphaned in 2008. It was removed from Testing in January
because it depends on the deprecated pygtk.

Therefore, please remove xmms2tray from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/479159 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898594: RM: xmms2tray -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: xmms2t...@packages.debian.org

xmms2tray was orphaned in 2009. It was removed from Testing in January
because it depends on
the deprecated pygtk.

Therefore, please remove xmms2tray from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/540567 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898590: RM: ntfs-config -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: ntfs-con...@packages.debian.org

ntfs-config was orphaned in 2011 and has had only one trivial update
since. It was removed from Testing in January because it depends on
the deprecated pygtk.

Therefore, please remove ntfs-config from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/620027 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898585: RM: maximus -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on obsolete libgnome

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: maxi...@packages.debian.org

maximus was orphaned in 2011. It was removed from Testing in January
because it depends on the deprecated libgnome libraries.

Therefore, please remove maximus from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/625952 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898584: RM: gnome-alsamixer -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on obsolete libgnome

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: gnome-alsami...@packages.debian.org

gnome-alsamixer was orphaned in 2012. It was removed from Testing 4 months
ago because it depends on the deprecated libgnome libraries.

Therefore, please remove gnome-alsamixer from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/691265 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898583: RM: notebook -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on obsolete libgnome

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: noteb...@packages.debian.org

notebook was orphaned in 2016. It was removed from Testing 4 months
ago because it depends on the deprecate libgnome libraries.

Therefore, please remove notebook from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/729380 (orphan bug)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#898467: RM: kvkbd -- RoQA; unmaintained; better alternative exist

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: kv...@packages.debian.org

kvkbd was orphaned in 2011. It had an upload in 2016 to update the
packaging. Its last upstream release was apparently a decade ago.

It was removed from Ubuntu in 2014 because KDE Plasma includes
maintained virtual keyboards.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1276140

Therefore, please remove kvkbd from Debian.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#894655: gnubiff: Build-Depends on gconf

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: gnubiff
Version: 2.2.17-1
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gconf
Tags: sid buster

Your package build-depends on gconf, but gconf will be removed from Debian soon.

gconf's last release was about 5 years ago. It has been replaced by
gsettings (provided in Debian by source glib2.0 )

Please try to port your package away from gconf. Otherwise, be aware that this 
package is at high risk of being removed from Debian to help us complete this 
goal (because gnubiff is orphaned).

gnubiff's build system is odd. It requires gconf to be installed for the build 
but doesn't actually install the gconf schemas!

References
--
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#894262: regexxer: Intent to remove package from Debian

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: regexxer
Version: 0.10-3
Severity: serious
Tags: sid buster

regexxer was orphaned 8 years ago. [1]

Its last upstream release, 0.10, was in 2011.

Although there has been some activity in git [2], I think we can consider this 
software unmaintained if it never does releases.

It is blocking the eventual removal of gconf from Debian. Therefore, I intend 
to file a removal bug for this package soon.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/569345
[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/regexxer/log/

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#894261: regexxer: Depends on gconf

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: regexxer
Version: 0.10-3
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gconf
Tags: sid buster

Your package depends or build-depends on gconf, but gconf will be removed from 
Debian soon.

gconf's last release was about 5 years ago. It has been replaced by
gsettings (provided in Debian by source glib2.0 )

Please try to port your package away from gconf. Otherwise, please consider 
requesting that your package be removed from Debian to help us complete this 
goal.

References
--
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#894058: RM: gxine -- RoQA; orphaned, depends on ancient mozjs

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: gx...@packages.debian.org

gxine was orphaned in November by the MIA Team. [1]

It is one of the last packages depending on the ancient mozjs (the
SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine from um, Firefox 4, I believe). For
that reason, it was removed from Testing 6 months ago. [2]

mozjs has been replaced by mozj52 (corresponds with Firefox 52 ESR)
which is still supported by Mozilla.

gxine is still maintained somewhat upstream so if this issue is ever
fixed and there's a Debian maintainer, gxine can be reintroduced to
Debian. But for now, please remove gxine from Debian.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/881509
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/863786
[3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/xine/files/gxine/

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885666: gpdftext: raising severity of gconf dependency bug

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 serious

As announced [1], we are working to remove gconf from Debian. As part of this 
process, I am now raising the severity of this bug.

Please try to port your package away from gconf. Otherwise, please consider 
requesting that your package be removed from Debian to help us complete this 
goal.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#893870: RM: luakit -- RoQA; orphaned web browser; depends on unmaintained webkitgtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: lua...@packages.debian.org, groo...@groolot.net

luakit was orphaned about 3 years ago [1]

It was removed from Testing 8 months ago because it depends on the
unmaintained webkitgtk.

There is an ITA/RFS bug in progress, but it has been in progress for 9
months and is still not ready for upload to Debian. (I apologize for
not helping more, but I'm not interested in being partially
responsible for this particular package.)

I think at some point we should just let the package be removed from
Debian so it doesn't block the webkitgtk removal. I also think that
web browsers need to be reasonably well-maintained in Debian or else
it is a disservice to our users. Therefore, I'm filing this removal
bug..

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/738447

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#698032: gkdebconf: raising severity of gconf dependency bug

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 serious

As announced [1], we are working to remove gconf from Debian. As part
of this process, I am now raising the severity of this bug.

Please try to port your package away from gconf. Otherwise, please
consider requesting that your package be removed from Debian to help us
complete this goal.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#884923: abiword: CVE-2017-17529

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> wrote:
> Is abiword upstream still active?

Yes.

https://bugzilla.abisource.com/

Here's a git mirror of their svn repo. The git mirror is sometimes a
bit out of date.
https://github.com/AbiWord/abiword/commits/trunk

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#884923: abiword: CVE-2017-17529

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: reopen -1
Control: tags -1 moreinfo

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> wrote:
> Source: abiword
> Version: 3.0.2-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: security upstream
>
> Hi,
>
> the following vulnerability was published for abiword.
>
> CVE-2017-17529[0]:
> | af/util/xp/ut_go_file.cpp in AbiWord 3.0.2-2 does not validate strings
> | before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment
> | variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct
> | argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL.
>
> Might be possible to just compile with --with-gnomevfs and not use the
> problematic function.

The --with-gnomevfs option is only for gtk2, but we build Abiword with gtk3.

Also, it would be an RC bug to actually depend on gnome-vfs [1]

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html

Has this issue even been reported to the Abiword developers?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#890459: orbit2: Don't release with Debian Buster

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: orbit2
Version: 1:2.14.19-4
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs
Tags: sid buster

orbit2 is unmaintained and is only kept in Debian because it's used by
obsolete libgnome libraries that the Debian GNOME team is trying to
remove from Debian Buster. [1] Therefore, I am filing this bug so that
this package can be removed soon.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#886187: zapping: Raising severity of libgnome rdepends bugs

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 serious

As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with
the old libgnome (and related) libraries. As part of this process, I
am now raising the severity of this bug.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#886188: zapping: Depends on gconf

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: zapping
Version: 0.10~cvs6-12
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gconf
Tags: sid buster
X-Debbugs-CC: ya...@gnu.org, locutusofb...@debian.org

Your package depends or build-depends on gconf, but gconf will be
removed from Debian soon.

gconf's last release was about 5 years ago. It has been replaced by
gsettings (provided in Debian by source glib2.0 )

References
--
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#886187: zapping: Depends on libgnomeui

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: zapping
Version: 0.10~cvs6-12
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libgnomeui
Tags: sid buster
X-Debbugs-CC: ya...@gnu.org, locutusofb...@debian.org

As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with
the old libgnome (and related) libraries. These libraries have been
deprecated and unmaintained for several years.

Your package depends and or build-depends on libgnomeui.

Please port your package to GTK3 and related maintained libraries.
Otherwise, please consider requesting that your package be removed from
Debian to help us complete this goal.

My apologies for not being more specific in bug 868412.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/10/msg00299.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#886065: gyrus: Depends on gconf

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: gyrus
Version: 0.3.10-3
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gconf
Tags: sid buster

Your package depends or build-depends on gconf, but gconf will be
removed from Debian soon.

gconf's last release was about 5 years ago. It has been replaced by
gsettings (provided in Debian by source glib2.0 )

References
--
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885966: RM: gvrng -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on pygtksourceview

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm
X-Debbugs-Cc: gv...@packages.debian.org

Please remove gvrng from Debian.

It was orphaned in 2016 and is no longer maintained upstream. [1] [2]

gvrng is now blocking the removal of the unmaintained pygtksourceview2
library. [3]

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/831718
[2] The latest version is from 2010 https://sourceforge.net/projects/gvr/files/
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/822585

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885956: RM: x-tile -- RoQA; unmaintained, depends on python-gnome

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm
X-Debbugs-Cc: x-t...@packages.debian.org

Please remove xtile from Debian.

It was orphaned in 2014 with no uploads since then. [1]

x-tile is now blocking the removal of the unmaintained gnome-python
packages from Debian. [1]

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/740793
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/845960

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885948: RM: gnome-btdownload -- RoQA; unmaintained; depends on gnome-python

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm
X-Debbugs-Cc: gnome-btdownl...@packages.debian.org

Please remove gnome-btdownload from Debian.

It was orphaned [1] a year ago. I believe upstream considers
gnome-btdownload to be unmaintained and suggests transmission be used
instead. [2]

gnome-btdownload is now blocking the removal of the unmaintained
gnome-python packages from Debian.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/847411
[2] http://gnome-bt.sourceforge.net/

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885821: cdrdao: Depends on gconf

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: cdrdao
Version: 1:1.2.3-3
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gconf
Tags: sid buster

Your package depends or build-depends on gconf, but gconf will be
removed from Debian soon.

gconf's last release was about 5 years ago. It has been replaced by
gsettings (provided in Debian by source glib2.0 )

References
--
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885817: gnomint: Depends on gconf

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: gnomint
Version: 1.2.1-7
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gconf
Tags: sid buster

Your package depends or build-depends on gconf, but gconf will be
removed from Debian soon.

gconf's last release was about 5 years ago. It has been replaced by
gsettings (provided in Debian by source glib2.0 )

References
--
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885800: dia: Don't Build-Depend on libart

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: dia
Version: 0.97.3+git20160930-6
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libgnomecanvas
Tags: sid buster

As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with
the old libgnome (and related) libraries. These libraries have been
deprecated and unmaintained for several years.

Your package build-depends on libart2.0-dev. The package builds fine
without that build-dependency, but the configure step has this output:

  Libart support (PNG export):   no


Please investigate whether the build-dependency can be dropped or
whether another maintained library can replace libart (like gdk-pixbuf, 
cairo, or imagemagick)

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/10/msg00299.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885566: RM: django-authority -- RoQA; unmaintained, not in testing for 2 years

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: django-author...@packages.debian.org

Please remove django-authority from Debian.

It was orphaned and had its last upload in 2014. https://bugs.debian.org/737292

It has not been in Testing since January 2016 except for a brief gap at
the end of 2016 because of a BTS malfunction. It was not part of the
Stretch release. It was removed from Testing because it does not work
with the Django version in Debian.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885564: RM: apt-p2p -- RoQA; unmaintained, not in testing for 1.5 years

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: apt-...@packages.debian.org

Please remove apt-p2p from Debian.

It has not been in Testing since June 2016 except for a brief gap at
the end of 2016 because of a BTS malfunction. It was not part of the
Stretch release. It was remove from Testing because its dependency,
twisted-web2 fails to build. https://bugs.debian.org/844493

apt-p2p has been orphaned since at least October 2014 (based on the
changelog date). Last upload was in early 2015.
https://bugs.debian.org/791801

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885545: hannah-foo2zjs: Don't depend on gksu

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: hannah-foo2zjs
Severity: serious
Tags: sid buster
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gksu

gksu has been deprecated for years. The intent of gksu is to allow
running apps with elevated privileges but the way to do that is for
the app developer to use PolicyKit to request elevated privileges for
the specific actions that need done instead of for the whole app to
run as root.

For the next major stable release of Debian (codenamed Buster), the
Debian GNOME team plans to default to GNOME on Wayland where gksu does
not even work.

Therefore, the Debian GNOME team intends to either remove gksu or
replace it with a non-functional warning message. gksu is unmaintained
(last upload 2014) and is a security vulnerability.

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885510: ntfs-config: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: ntfs-config
Version: 1.0.1-11
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings (and gtk3).

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885495: xmms2tray: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: xmms2tray
Version: 0.5.1-3
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings (and gtk3).

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885492: utf8-migration-tool: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: utf8-migration-tool
Version: 0.5.9
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings (and gtk3).

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885477: reinteract: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: reinteract
Version: 0.5.0-6
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings (and gtk3).

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885298: gquilt: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Peter Williams <pwil3...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I lost interest in maintaining gquilt when I created darning
> (https://github.com/pwil3058/darning) and stopped using quilt.  I do not
> intend to do any more work on gquilt so if you wish to continue using it you
> should arrange for someone to take it over from me.

Thank you Peter for replying.

The bug I filed here will lead to gquilt being removed from Debian
Testing in a few weeks. And unless sometimes does the porting work and
takes over maintenance, we'll eventually remove gquilt from Debian
(unstable).

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885335: abiword is missing required dependency

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Tomas M  wrote:
> You probably do not understand me correctly.
> I am not an end user.
> I am a creator of Live distribution Slax (now based on Debian).
>
> I understand that installing 'xorg' package will add libgl1-mesa-dri.
> But I do not want this to be included in base Slax. I just want
> xorg-server inthere.

xserver-xorg-core already Recommends libgl1-mesa-dri. I do hope you
install Recommends.

> Anyway, this is not about Slax. This is about Debian.
>
> I understand Debian this way:
> 1) user can install any package by apt install.
> 2) user can choose himself what he wants to install
> 3) so I choose to install xorg-server only. This works perfectly well.
> I do not need libgl1-mesa-dri to use xorg-server package.
> 4) then later I choose to install abiword
> 5) Debian's dependency tracking system should know that abiword
> requires libgl1-mesa-dri to run (it fails to start without it).
>
> I believe that dependency tracking in Debian should understand that if
> user wants to install abiword, then the user must have installed
> libgl1-mesa-dri, because otherwise abiword does not start.

Ok, could you investigate why Abiword appears to require
libgl1-mesa-dri? It's unusual for a Debian app to need to manually
depend on that.

Jeremy

Bug#885335: abiword is missing required dependency

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Tomas M <to...@slax.org> wrote:
> Hello
> I am not installing desktop from Debian's installer.
>
> I have xorg, of course, I've installed xserver-xorg package directly.
> I am running X without any problem. I am running other X applications
> without any problem too.

No, I'm saying you should install the package named 'xorg' which is
already installed by the usual supported ways of installing a desktop
on Debian.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885366: pyneighborhood: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: pyneighborhood
Version: 0.5.4-2
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings (and gtk3).

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885335: abiword is missing required dependency

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 5:46 AM, Tomas M <to...@slax.org> wrote:
> The package libgl1-mesa-dri should be listed as REQUIRED dependency of 
> abiword,
> because abiword does not run without it.

Why don't you have 'xorg' installed which depends on libgl1-mesa-dri ?
xorg is installed when you choose a Desktop task from the Debian
installer.

I am probably going to close this bug since this isn't Abiword's fault.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885298: gquilt: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: gquilt
Version: 0.25-5
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings.

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885271: dia-common: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: dia-common
Version: 0.97.3+git20160930-7
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings.

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885264: childsplay: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: childsplay
Version: 2.6.5+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings.

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885262: buxon: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: buxon
Version: 0.0.5-5
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings.

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885258: apoo: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: apoo
Version: 2.2-4
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings.

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885211: RM: gtk2-engines-magicchicken -- RoQA; unmaintained gtk2-only theme

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: gtk2-engines-magicchic...@packages.debian.org

Please remove gtk2-engines-magicchicken from Debian.

It was orphaned in 2010, last upload was in 2011.

Now that the only supported web browsers in Debian have switched to
gtk3 (Firefox and Chromium), it is impractical to run a Debian desktop
system without gtk3. A gtk2-only theme without any reverse depends
just isn't very useful any more.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#856074: Raising severity of bugs for esound reverse depends

[Jeremy Bicha]

We do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with esound. Therefore,
I am raising the severity of these bugs now.

Please port your package to maintained libraries like PulseAudio (or
simply remove the dependency if it is optional). Otherwise, please
consider requesting that your package be removed from Debian to help us
complete this goal.

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#885039: referencer: Please don't (Build-)Depend on gconfmm2.6

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: referencer
Version: 1.2.2-2
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gconf gconfmm
Tags: sid buster

referencer Build-Depends and Depends on gconfmm2.6. gconfmm2.6 will be
removed from Debian soon.

gconf's last release was about 5 years ago. It has been replaced by
dconf / gsettings.

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#884998: vusb-analyzer: Please don't recommend python-gnome2

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: vusb-analyzer
Severity: serious
Version: 0.6-1
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs python-gnome2 gnome-python
Tags: sid buster

lottanzb recommends python-gnome2 which will be removed from Debian
Testing really soon.

My understanding is that it is an RC bug for a package to recommend a
removed package since it will keep the removed package installed after
upgrade.

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#879577: RM: imgtex -- RoQA; unmaintained, uninstallable for one year

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc:webkit2...@packages.debian.org

Please remove imgtex from Debian unstable.

imgtex was orphaned 2½ years ago
https://bugs.debian.org/780557

imgtex was removed from testing 10 months ago because it is uninstallable.
https://bugs.debian.org/843382

Clearly, it is not being maintained in Debian.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#879167: RM: webkit2pdf -- RoM/RoQA; depends on unmaintained webkitgtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: ftp.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc:webkit2...@packages.debian.org

Please remove webkit2pdf from Debian unstable.

webkit2pdf was removed from Debian Testing 3 months ago
because it depends on webkitgtk which is being removed from Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/790220

webkit2pdf is no longer being developed upstream.

webkit2pdf was orphaned in Debian a year ago
https://bugs.debian.org/839741

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#877555: libgegl-dev should supply VAPI bindings

[Jeremy Bicha]

There doesn't appear to be any .vapi file generated by the build.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#877366: stretch-pu: package abiword/3.0.2-2+deb9u1

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: release.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc:abiw...@packages.debian.org
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu
Tags: stretch
Severity: normal

The attached debdiff fixes a flickering bug that makes Abiword nearly
unusable for some users.

https://bugs.debian.org/851052

The patch was rejected upstream because it doesn't work for GNOME on
Wayland. But Debian's GNOME does not default to Wayland in Stretch.
And Abiword is more commonly used on less powerful desktop
environments instead of the resource-intensive GNOME.

This patch was uploaded to unstable (and Ubuntu 17.10 Beta) as 3.0.2-3
just now. The package was uploaded with urgency: high so it should be
in testing in a few days. It builds on all architectures so far. I
didn't want to delay filing this bug in case it wasn't quite too late
for Debian 9.2. Sorry for the late request.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha


abiword-flickering-stretch.debdiff
Description: Binary data

Bug#866658: xombrero: depends on libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 which is deprecated

[Jeremy Bicha]

Source: xombrero
Severity: serious
Tags: sid buster
User: pkg-webkit-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 webkit1

Hi,

xombrero depends on libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, which is deprecated in
favor of libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (provided in Debian by webkit2gtk).
xombrero should be ported to the new webkitgtk version so we
can remove the old, unmaintained one.

Please try to do soon as we're going to try to remove the old webkitgtk soon.

I am filing this bug as "serious" since the old webkitgtk will not be
available in the next major stable release of Debian (codenamed
"buster").

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

On behalf of the Debian WebKit Maintainers,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#866630: balsa: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: apvlv
Severity: serious
Tags: sid buster
User: pkg-webkit-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 webkit1

Hi,

balsa depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, which is deprecated in favor of
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (provided in Debian by webkit2gtk). balsa should
be ported to the new webkitgtk version so we can remove the old,
unmaintained one.

Please try to do soon as we're going to try to remove the old webkitgtk soon.

I am filing this bug as "serious" since the old webkitgtk will not be
available in the next major stable release of Debian (codenamed
"buster").

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

On behalf of the Debian WebKit Maintainers,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#866628: apvlv: depends on libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 which is deprecated

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: apvlv
Severity: serious
Tags: sid buster
User: pkg-webkit-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 webkit1

Hi,

apvlv depends on libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, which is deprecated in favor of
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (provided in Debian by webkit2gtk). apvlv should
be ported to the new webkitgtk version so we can remove the old,
unmaintained one.

Please try to do soon as we're going to try to remove the old webkitgtk soon.

I am filing this bug as "serious" since the old webkitgtk will not be
available in the next major stable release of Debian (codenamed
"buster").

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

On behalf of the Debian WebKit Maintainers,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#790220: Raising severity to serious for packages depending on webkitgtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 -stretch

We do not intend to release the next stable release of Debian
(codenamed "buster") with webkitgtk. Therefore, I am raising the
severity of this issue to serious. Please drop the dependency on
webkitgtk because webkitgtk will be removed from Debian soon.

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#790207: Raising severity to serious for packages depending on webkitgtk

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 -stretch

We do not intend to release the next stable release of Debian
(codenamed "buster") with webkitgtk. Therefore, I am raising the
severity of this issue to serious. Please drop the dependency on
webkitgtk because webkitgtk will be removed from Debian soon.

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#865902: marked as done (link-grammar: Missing test dependency on default-jdk)

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System
<ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
>  link-grammar (5.3.16-2) unstable; urgency=medium
>  .
>* QA upload.
>* Apply patch from Steve Langasek adding the missing test
>  dependency on default-jdk. (Closes: #865902)

Adrian, thanks for doing the QA upload.

But this package is maintained in collab-maint so please push your
changes there.

https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/link-grammar.git/

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#822001: libcorelinux: Build arch:all+arch:any but is missing build-{arch,indep} targets

[Jeremy Bicha]

It looks like libcorelinux still fails to build:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libcorelinux

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#842443: Abiword: patch available

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Santiago Ruano Rincón
 wrote:
> Upstream proposes a patch to fix this:

Santiago, I confirm that the patch fixes this bug and am doing an
upload to Debian now. Thank you!

Jeremy

Bug#842443: abiword under XFCE4 displays all documents as black on black

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Peter Chubb
<peter.ch...@data61.csiro.au> wrote:
> Every time I open a word document in ABIWord it displays as black on
> black, and so is unreadable.  Clicking anywhere on the page briefly
> shows the text, but only for a fraction of a second.

What GTK+ theme are you using?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#819546: vsftpd no longer starts with systemd because of listen_ipv6=NO from Bug: #803999

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 grave

Since the maintainer has orphaned this package [1] and therefore this
package is maintained by Debian in general, I'm resetting the bug
severity since I agree with the reporter that this is a RC issue.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#829011: link-grammar: please make the build reproducible

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/opencog/link-grammar/pull/317
Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream pending

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> wrote:
> Patch attached.

Thank you. The patch has been accepted upstream!

Jeremy Bicha

Bug#721022: abiword: can't see any words in file

[Jeremy Bicha]

I am unable to duplicate this bug with abiword 3.0.1-6 on current
Debian 'testing' using the GNOME desktop environment.

Please verify whether you are still experiencing this bug or if it has
been fixed.

The Abiword developers ask to make sure you have appropriate Asian
fonts installed.

Thank you,
Jeremy

Bug#790901: abiword: many GLib-GObject-WARNINGs

[Jeremy Bicha]

I am unable to duplicate this bug with abiword 3.0.1-6 on current
Debian 'testing'.

Please verify whether you are still experiencing this bug or if it has
been fixed.

Thank you,
Jeremy