Re: Bug#1092927: libgnomekbd: unmaintained upstream; upstream repository is archived and read-only

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 at 20:56:53 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> I'm raising the severity because it looks doable for libgnomekbd to be
> removed from Debian before Debian 14 is released.
> budgie-control-center in experimental no longer uses libgnomekbd.
>
> Cinnamon 6.6 no longer uses libgnomekbd according to
> https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena_whatsnew.php
>
> Cinnamon has a lot of components so I don't know if every piece was
> ported away from libgnomekbd yet. (I know that cinnamon-screensaver
> still uses caribou for instance.). Practically, libgnomekbd won't be
> removed from Testing as long as Cinnamon uses it, according to the
> current way Debian defines key packages.

I asked dak what components are affected:
https://people.debian.org/~smcv/temp/2025/mbf-libgnomekbd/

and in addition to cinnamon-screensaver, the answer is:

cinnamon
cinnamon-control-center
cinnamon-settings-daemon
gnome-screensaver
xapp

I'll open bugs if they don't already exist.

    smcv