Source: libgdata Severity: important Tags: trixie sid upstream wontfix User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org
According to comments on <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgdata/-/merge_requests/47>, libgdata is effectively unmaintained upstream. I am not aware of any obvious replacement. Several packages in Debian depend on it and would be broken by its removal, but its uses in most of them are trivial/obsolete: Genuine(?) uses --------------- - gvfs has a runtime dependency, for the Google Drive plugin. This could be disabled by compiling with -Dgoogle=false if desired. - gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect Recommends the GIR typelib. I haven't investigated further. Obsolete references ------------------- - eog-plugins Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but doesn't use it any more (it's for a plugin for Google PicasaWeb, which was disabled after Google discontinued the web service). - gnome-photos Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but doesn't use it any more (the plugin was disabled in order to avoid a libsoup2 / librest 0.7 dependency) - grilo-plugins Build-Depends on libgdata-dev, but there's a change staged in its git repo to remove the build-dependency - shotwell Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but I don't see any sign that it's used, maybe a plugin was removed? - totem Build-Depends on libgdata-dev but I don't see any sign that it's used, maybe a plugin was removed? I think we should seriously consider removing this from trixie. smcv
