[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#856527: virt-manager: depends on obsolete gconf2

[Simon McVittie]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 1:1.4.0-5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs

virt-manager depends on the obsolete gconf2 package.

Looking at its source code, this appears to be to get
gsettings-data-convert run on login; but the migration from
gconf to gsettings for this package took place in 0.10.0 according
to NEWS, which would put it somewhere between wheezy and jessie.
Debian does not support skipping a version while upgrading, and upgrades
will typically not remove unused packages immediately anyway,
so I think this can probably be discarded now (assuming that
users of virt-manager will log in at least once between upgrading
to jessie, and upgrading to stretch or later).

Regards,
    S

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-2+b1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.22.9-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-vnc-2.0                           0.6.0-3
ii  gir1.2-libosinfo-1.0                         1.0.0-2
ii  gir1.2-libvirt-glib-1.0                      1.0.0-1
ii  gir1.2-vte-2.91                              0.46.1-1
ii  librsvg2-common                              2.40.16-1+b1
ii  python-dbus                                  1.2.4-1
ii  python-gi                                    3.22.0-2
ii  python-gi-cairo                              3.22.0-2
ii  python-libvirt                               3.0.0-2
ii  python-requests                              2.12.4-1
pn  python2.7:any                                <none>
pn  python:any                                   <none>
ii  virtinst                                     1:1.4.0-5.1

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0  0.33-3.3
ii  gnome-icon-theme             3.12.0-2
ii  libvirt-daemon-system        3.0.0-3

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  gir1.2-secret-1  0.18.5-3
ii  gnome-keyring    3.20.0-3
ii  python-guestfs   1:1.34.4-1
ii  ssh-askpass      1:1.2.4.1-9
ii  virt-viewer      5.0-1

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