Bug#892359: libgnome-keyring: Do not release with Buster

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at debian.org
Thu Mar 8 13:12:16 UTC 2018


Source: libgnome-keyring
Version: 3.12.0-1
Severity: serious
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libgnome-keyring-removal
Tags: buster sid

As announced [1], we are working to remove libgnome-keyring from
Debian. The libgnome-keyring library is deprecated and its usage is strongly
discouraged [2].

Please update your application to use libsecret instead [3].
Such a port should ideally happen with upstream being involved.

Bugs for packages depending on libgnome-keyring can be found at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=libgnome-keyring-removal

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html
[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgnome-keyring/commit/?id=6a5adea4aec93
[3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libsecret

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha



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