Hi, gregor herrmann: > Or did you mean the build and runtime dependency on > libgnome2-vfs-perl?
> Ah, the generated Depends contains libgnomevfs2-0, which sounds more > like gnome-vfs ... > > Which seems to be useless? > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if > debian/libgnome2-perl/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24/auto/Gnome2/Gnome2.so > was > not linked against libgnomevfs-2.so.0 (it uses none of the library's symbols) This bug is the only blocker for #868398 AFAICT, so let's try to simply remove libgnome2-perl from the archive during the Buster cycle. It's been obsolete for too long. $ reverse-depends -b libgnome2-perl Reverse-Build-Depends-Indep =========================== * greenwich * isenkram $ reverse-depends libgnome2-perl Reverse-Depends =============== * greenwich * podbrowser * shutter * yarssr So let's see: 1. greenwich: "graphical whois client for GNOME", last upload in 2012, upstream home page is not available at the moment. David, is there a chance that greenwich stops depending on obsolete GNOME 2 stuff during the Buster cycle, or should we remove it from the archive, or do you have another idea in mind? 2. podbrowser: "Documentation browser for Perl", last upload in 2010, last upstream release in 2007. Jeffrey, is there a chance that greenwich stops depending on obsolete GNOME 2 stuff during the Buster cycle, or should we remove it from the archive, or do you have another idea in mind? 3. isenkram: actively developed upstream and in Debian. Petter, I see that in 0.30 you "Dropped obsolete dependency libgnome2-perl"; perhaps the build-dep is obsolete too? If not, any plan to drop it during the Buster cycle? 4. shutter & yarssr: Can be removed IMO, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868398#15 for details. Cheers, -- intrigeri
