Hi Jeremy, while I understand your reason, the way you are handling this is rather rude. If you want to remove a package, the nice way is to file "important" bugs early and rise the severity at some point, some months later. Or are you planning to fix the apps from the gpsd-clients package very soon?
I guess you can imagine that migrating things away from pygtk is nothing you just do with the next package upload. So what you are basically doing with this bug is marking a good part of Debian (like KDE..) for autoremoval. Or you are forcing me to remove some apps which are useful for a lot of people just because you decided that this bug is serious now and the package needs to go now. I'd suggest that you downgrade all the bugs you've filed, wait for a month or two, and then rise the severity again. Bernd On 12/26/2017 06:39 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Package: gpsd-clients > Version: 3.17-3 > Severity: serious > User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: oldlibs pygtk > Tags: sid buster > > pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3 > was released in 2011. > > The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection > bindings. > > For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2]. > > Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to > try to remove pygtk this cycle. > > If you have any question don't hesitate to ask. > > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection > [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject > > On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, > Jeremy Bicha > -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
