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  • gconf removal for buster premature?

    From Jeremy Bicha@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 5 18:00:01 2018
    Hi,

    Let me reply to https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2018-August/145477.html

    This is the embarrassing part where I admit that I am not subscribed
    to the pkg-gnome-maintainers list because it sends a lot of mail which
    I already get more conveniently from subscribing to https://tracker.debian.org/teams/debian-gnome-team/

    I am subscribed to https://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/ though.

    You should discuss your proposals with the new gconf maintainer.

    I believe the Debian GNOME team really does want to get rid of gconf
    as soon as we can. In fact, we had removed all gconf
    reverse-dependencies from Buster already (except for Eclipse which is
    a huge headache), but the new gconf maintainer has now let several
    back in for Buster. I think his plan was to try to remove gconf during
    Bullseye though.

    Thanks,
    Jeremy Bicha

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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to Jeremy Bicha on Thu Sep 6 05:00:02 2018
    On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:

    I believe the Debian GNOME team really does want to get rid of gconf
    as soon as we can. In fact, we had removed all gconf
    reverse-dependencies from Buster already (except for Eclipse which is
    a huge headache), but the new gconf maintainer has now let several
    back in for Buster. I think his plan was to try to remove gconf during Bullseye though.

    BTW, I think for future GNOME library deprecations it would be a good
    idea to file wishlist bugs against reverse dependencies immediately
    when GNOME upstream decides to deprecate things instead of filing them
    closer to the removal time. For example I guess for GTK+3 that will be
    coming during the bullseye cycle as GTK+4 is in progress? As I
    understand it, GTK+2 is already deprecated so now is the time to file
    bugs about that.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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