Control: block 895520 by -1 Control: severity -1 serious Quoting full-text in case the package's maintainers didn't see this before, since it was initially assigned to a nonexistent package and the maintainers don't seem to have been Cc'd when it was reassigned:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 at 21:45:12 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Package: fcitx-configtool-gtk2 > Version: 0.4.9-1 > Severity: important > User: [email protected] > Usertags: oldlibs libunique > Tags: sid buster > > As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with > the old libgnome (and related) libraries. These libraries have been > deprecated and unmaintained for several years. > > Your package depends and or build-depends on libunique. > > Please consider dropping fcitx-configtool-gtk2 to help us achieve this > goal. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/10/msg00299.html > > On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, > Jeremy Bicha The severity of #895520 was escalated to serious in October 2019, so I'm raising this bug to the same severity now. fcitx-configtool build-depends on libunique-dev but fcitx-config-gtk2 does not have a Depends on it, which suggests that the build-dependency might be unnecessary. If so, this bug will be easy to fix. Thanks, smcv
