Re: Intent to orphan obsolete gnome-sig packages

On Wed, Aug 27 2025 at 12:05:00 PM +02:00:00, Michal Schorm 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Could you please check which of them are used by Cinnamon spin?

Hi,

No, but Cinnamon maintainers are welcome to check the list and own 
whatever packages they need.

Just keep in mind almost all of the packages on this list are really 
completely obsolete upstream. The upstream repos are either archived, 
or don't exist anymore at all, or in a couple of cases the Fedora 
package corresponds to a branch that's no longer maintained upstream. 
There will very likely never be a new upstream release of any of these. 
It would be nice if we could retire as much as possible rather than 
keep obsolete packages around forever like we do GTK 1 and GLib 1.

I recommend looking at what depends on the packages you have installed 
to assess whether you really need them or not and whether dependency 
minimization is an option. E.g. nemo-preview depends on clutter. I see 
muffin and cinnamon itself don't require clutter anymore, so hopefully 
nemo-preview is the only thing that needs fixed.

GTK 2 is an exception in that clearly that one should not be retired. 
Somebody else can claim it after we orphan it. Thanks Artur for already 
volunteering to do so.

Our list is exact source package names, so we won't drop libsoup3 or 
vte291, which are not on our list.

Michael


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