Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal The GNOME team have been trying to remove dependencies on various deprecated GNOME 2 libraries from Debian, but it now looks as though Adrian Bunk intends to adopt gconf and oppose its removal. Whichever of these eventually happens, if it isn't going to be removed immediately, please move its libraries and development headers to the oldlibs section.
gconf is dead upstream (deprecated in 2010, latest release 2013, latest commit 2015) and should not be used in new projects. Adrian doesn't seem to disagree with the GNOME team on gconf's deprecated status; the disagreement is solely about whether to keep it minimally maintained for another release cycle, or remove it. Language bindings for gconf might also be candidates for a move to oldlibs, but I don't know how which factor takes higher precedence between "CLI bindings should be in Section: cli-mono" and "deprecated libraries should be in Section: oldlibs". Language bindings include: libgconf2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil-dev gir1.2-gconf-2.0 guile-gnome2-gconf libgnome2-gconf-perl python-gconf Thanks, smcv