Package: emacs24 Version: 24.5+1-8.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
The gconf library is deprecated, and on my system, only pulled in by emacs24. Looking for various resources on its usefulness, I only found a reference in the GNU Emacs Manual to gconf being needed for using the system font. This seems outdated, gsettings should suffice. I recompiled without gconf support, and emacs follows changes to the system monospace font just fine. What are the reasons for keeping support for this deprecated library in emacs24 (and emacs25) ? Can it be removed ? Cheers, Itaï. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages emacs24 depends on: ii emacs24-bin-common 24.5+1-8.1 ii libacl1 2.2.52-3+b1 ii libasound2 1.1.3-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.8-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.16-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1 ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3+b2 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2 ii libgif7 5.1.4-0.4 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-5 ii libgomp1 6.3.0-11 ii libgpm2 1.20.4-6.2+b1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.11-1 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2 ii libm17n-0 1.7.0-3+b1 ii libmagickcore-6.q16-3 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-2 ii libmagickwand-6.q16-3 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-2 ii libotf0 0.9.13-3+b1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.4-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.4-1 ii libpng16-16 1.6.28-1 ii librsvg2-2 2.40.16-1+b1 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b1 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b3 ii libtiff5 4.0.7-5 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxft2 2.3.2-1+b2 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b3 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 emacs24 recommends no packages. Versions of packages emacs24 suggests: pn emacs24-common-non-dfsg <none> -- no debconf information
