Bug#1041790: dbus-c++: depends on unmaintained gtkmm2.4, and indirectly on GTK 2
Source: dbus-c++
Version: 0.9.0-11
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: gtk2 oldlibs
Control: block 967733 by -1
Control: block 967497 by -1
dbus-c++ Build-Depends on packages from src:gtkmm2.4, a C++ binding for
GTK 2.
GTK 2 was superseded by GTK 3 in 2011 (see
<https://bugs.debian.org/947713>). It has been discontinued by its upstream
developer and no longer receives any upstream maintenance.
If dbus-c++ can be either updated to GTK 3, updated to drop the GTK
dependency or removed, then that would reduce the amount of technical
debt in the archive.
>From a quick look at the binary package dependencies and source code,
it looks as though simply dropping the build-dependency should work: this
will result in the dbus-browser example not being compiled any more, but
no changes to the installed files.
Thanks,
smcv
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