Bug#886063: libgnomecanvas: Don't release with Buster

2018-08-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:24:21 +0100 Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 at 02:50:40 -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote: > > "libgnomecanvas is not related to libgnome in any way despite the > > name. It provides a high-performance canvas widget for GTK2, it is the > > standard canvas widget for GTK

Bug#886063: libgnomecanvas: Don't release with Buster

2018-07-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 at 02:50:40 -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote: > "libgnomecanvas is not related to libgnome in any way despite the > name. It provides a high-performance canvas widget for GTK2, it is the > standard canvas widget for GTK2. There is no good replacement for > GTK3. I am not aware of any

Bug#886063: libgnomecanvas: Don't release with Buster

2018-07-29 Thread Borden Rhodes
I apologise. The relevant post is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885777#22: "Uh, wait... the mailing list post from October 2017 announcing the deprecation and removal of libgnome and libgnomeui and other related libraries didn't even list libgnomecanvas among the libraries to b

Bug#886063: libgnomecanvas: Don't release with Buster

2018-07-28 Thread Borden Rhodes
The Xournal package requires this package. If you refer to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885777#17, it appears that this package has been flagged for removal somewhat over-zealously: "libgnomecanvas is not related to libgnome in any way despite the name. It provides a high-perf

Bug#886063: libgnomecanvas: Don't release with Buster

2018-01-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Source: libgnomecanvas Version: 2.30.3-3 Severity: serious User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs libgnomecanvas Tags: sid buster As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with the old libgnome (and related) libraries. libgnomecanvas is one of