Re: Proposed removals of Debian GNOME packages

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 at 22:57:43 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> - esound (raise the bugs to Serious?) [1]
>
> If we want to remove that, raising the bug severities would be a
> prerequisite. (We should certainly either remove it or orphan it.)

Yes. In this case, I meant starting with raising the bug severity to
allow esound to be removed from Testing. And then removal from
Unstable can follow once there aren't any rdeps. That takes a while
for libraries but we were able to remove libunique3 from both Testing
and Unstable this year.

>> - gconf-editor (no rdeps, we really want to discourage gconf use)
>
> On one hand, we want to kill off gconf altogether; on the other hand,
> as long as gconf hasn't been fully removed, perhaps it makes sense to
> have its editor too?

That makes sense, as long as the list of gconf-using packages in
Testing is so long, it doesn't really help us much to drop
gconf-editor early.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha