By the way release 1.0.27 seems to address this:
https://www.jirka.org/genius.NEWS
* Remove dependence on AMTK

But it may be something that is already known! ;-)

Patrice

On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 10:08:18 +0100 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote:
> Source: genius
> Version: 1.0.25-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs unmaintained-upstream
> Control: block 993922 by -1
> 
> amtk has been frozen and archived upstream, and contributions are no longer
> accepted. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/amtk and
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/564 for
> more details.
> 
> The versions of gedit and devhelp on GNOME infrastructure stopped using
> amtk at the same time they stopped using tepl, which is in a similar
> situation (see #993909). I don't think amtk should be included in Debian 12.
> 
> The remaining packages that use amtk (genius, goodvibes and gyrus) will
> either need to stop using amtk (and switch to making the same calls into
> GTK that amtk does, but more directly), or fork it. If they fork it,
> the former maintainer requests that they use a different name.
> 
>     smcv
> 
> 

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