On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:42 PM Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> wrote:

> Package: gnome-genius
> Version: 1.0.24-2
> Severity: serious
> User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs gtksourceview2
> Tags: sid buster
>
> gnome-genius depends on gtksourceview2. The Debian GNOME team is
> trying to remove gtksourceview2 from Debian. Please port to gtk3 and
> gtksourceview4. Otherwise, I guess you can stop building gnome-genius.
>
> I apologize for not filing this bug sooner. I was only looking at
> packages in Testing and this package was removed from Testing earlier
> because of https://bugs.debian.org/790171 (which was fixed).
>
> Because of the late timing of this RC bug in the Buster cycle and
> because there might be a few other packages that won't be ported in
> time, please let me know if you object to gtksourceview2's removal
> from Buster.
>
>
While I sympathize with the desire to get rid of old libraries, I think
this bug comes too late. This bug should have been filed before stretch was
released if the target was buster.

I object to the serious severity, at least for this release cycle.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

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