Bug#914102: gyrus: Intent to remove from Debian

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

Control: close -1
Control: close 914104
Control: severity 886065 important
Control: severity 885666 important

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:13:37AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>...
> gyrus is one of the last packages in Debian using gconf. Although
> gconf will still be in the Debian Buster release, its main purpose
> there is to provide the gconf-to-gsettings migration helper.
> I intend to remove gyrus from Debian very soon. Please respond very
> promptly if you agree or object to its removal.
>...

Speaking with my gconf maintaner hat on, "main purpose" does not make 
other usages invalid.

gconf usage is not a valid reason for removal from Debian, and 
alternatives like ripping gconf support out of packages or package 
removal are worse than keeping gconf support in a package in buster.

To avoid misunderstandings, it is a bug to still use gconf.
But not an RC bug for buster.

> On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
> Jeremy Bicha

cu
Adrian

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