Bug#895037: libappindicator: deprecated in Debian; AppIndicator based applications, please switch to Ayatana (App)Indicator(s)

[Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org>]

Package: src:libappindicator
Severity: serious

The libappindicator package is currently QA team maintained in Debian  
and shall be phased out hopfully during the buster release cycle. The  
alternative (maintained upstream and Debian-downstream) is  
libayatana-appindicator.

There is a lot of porting work to do (little patches are required for  
each application), to let all AppIndicator aware applications build  
against the new and supported AppIndicator shared lib fork  
"libayatana-appindicator".

For details, please see [1]

For a list of applications that require porting and the porting  
status, see [2]

Greets,
Mike

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/03/msg00506.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Ayatana/IndicatorsTransition
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