[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#894055: gwyddion: Depends on gconf

[Andreas Tille]

Hi David and Petr,

as you can see below Debian will stop to support gconf in the not so
distant future.  The Debian Med team is maintaining gwyddion in Debian
but we do not have any capacity to do the porting work.

Since I guess the issue is not only relevant for Debian but also for
other distributions which will probably not provide gconf as well, I'd
like to forward the issue to you and hope that the links below will give
you sufficient documentation to get rid of gconf in gwyddion.

Kind regards and thanks for providing gwyddion as Free Software

       Andreas.

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 05:19:43PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Source: gwyddion
> Version: 2.49-1
> Severity: important
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs gconf
> Tags: sid buster
> 
> Your package depends and build-depends on gconf, but gconf will be removed from Debian soon.
> 
> gconf's last release was about 5 years ago. It has been replaced by
> gsettings (provided in Debian by source glib2.0 )
> 
> Please try to port your package away from gconf. Otherwise, please consider requesting that your package be removed from Debian to help us complete this goal.
> 
> References
> ----------
> https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html
> https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html
> 
> On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
> Jeremy Bicha


Control: tags -1 help
Control: tags -1 upstream
COntrol: forwarded -1 David Necas <yeti at gwyddion.net>, Petr Klapetek <klapetek at gwyddion.net>

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