Hi Jeremy, On Fr 02 Feb 2018 03:15:44 CET, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Package: libgtk2-appindicator-perl > Severity: important > User: pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: gnome2-removal > X-Debbugs-CC: asb@debian.org > > libgtk2-appindicator-perl has no reverse-depends and its only > reverse-recommends is shutter. Although shutter is a popular package, > it is unmaintained and seems unlikely to be included in the Buster > release without major work to port it to gtk3. > > See https://bugs.debian.org/870418 > > I don't think it makes sense to include a deprecated unmaintained > library in Debian with no reverse dependencies. The replacement is > GObject Introspection and either gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 or > gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1. That requires developers to use gtk3 > instead of gtk2. > > Thanks, > Jeremy Bicha Please go ahead with the removal of libgtk2-appindicator-perl. The new Ayatana Indicators stack does not depend on this package and it really seems unmaintained. Will you file the removal request once shutter is gone from the archive? Cheers, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 landline: +49 (4354) 8390 139 GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 mail: mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de