re: remove desktop-profiles?

Hi,

hello debian-desktop folks, we are pondering to remove
src:desktop-profiles from sid and bullseye, because:

On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 05:45:43PM +0100, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:14:00PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 05:03:10AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > > the latest d-e-config upload removed all traces from using
> > > desktop-profiles, as it has become unneeded. desktop-profiles has no
> > > rdepends, time to remove it from unstable (and thus bullseye)?
> > noone responded, so I'll file the removal bug soon.
> According to popcon, the desktop-profiles package has a higher value 
> than debian-edu-* packages, so seems to be used elsewhere. Maybe cc 
> debian-desktop@ about the removal?

doing so now. I've seen the higher popcon value too, and wondered why,
but still, I don't see any usecase left for desktop-profiles which
cannot be done better with XDG.

Do you see any reasons why the package should stay?


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cheers,
	Holger

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