On mer., 2011-08-17 at 01:16 +0200, j...@debian.org wrote: > Package: xfce4-xfapplet-plugin > Version: 0.1.0-4 > Severity: important > User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: applets-transition > > Hi, > > this package currently depends on libpanel-applet2-0 - most likely > because it provides an applet for the GNOME panel. > > The introduction of gnome-panel 3.0 to unstable is imminent. In this > version, the libpanel-applet library has undergone large changes, and > xfce4-xfapplet-plugin requires changes to support this version: > * updating to the D-Bus activation mechanism > * porting to GTK+ 3 > > You might want to check if upstream developers provide a new version, > compatible with gnome-panel 3.x. Otherwise, porting is a feasible task > if you have a pair of hours to spare. If you feel like it, the > following guides should help you: > * http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html > * http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppletsDbusMigration > > For packages that provide other functionality than the GNOME applet, > you can simply disable it in the build and remove the > build-dependency if it hasn’t been ported. > > For pure applets packages, you should ask for removal from the > archive if you do not intend to port it to the new interface. Such > packages that have not been ported when gnome-panel is ready to > migrate will be kicked out of testing. >
xfce4-xfapplet-plugin is a bit special since it's not an applet for the gnome panel but a plugin for the xfce4 panel which will host gnome panel applets. Unless we want to keep a way to host GNOME2 applets, I guess that mean we should remove xfapplet-plugin. I'm not sure how much people use it, but there's no trace of a GNOME3 migration upstream. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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