On Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:31:55 -0500 Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org> wrote:
> Source: plasma-pa
> Version: 4:5.10.5-2
> Severity: important
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs gconf
> Tags: sid buster
>
> Your package depends or build-depends on gconf, but gconf will be
> removed from Debian soon.
>
> gconf's last release was about 5 years ago. It has been replaced by
> gsettings (provided in Debian by source glib2.0 )
>
> I assume this depends on pulseaudio.
>
> References
> ----------
> https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html
> https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html
>
> On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
> Jeremy Bicha
Dear Debian KDE Developers,
With Debian's pulseaudio 12.0 upload, pulseaudio has removed pulseaudio-
module-gconf in favour of pulseaudio-module-gsettings, which would break
current plasma-pa.
Indeed. While pulseaudio can build a gconf or a gsettings backend, building both is not advisable and would lead to confusion, as changes would not be synchronized between the modules. Therefore I have removed the gconf module.
The only reverse dependencies are plasma-pa and paprefs. paprefs is already fixed upstream and I'm only waiting on a release to upload to debian. That would leave plasma-pa to be fixed.
(See also pulseaudio's bug https://bugs.debian.org/902181)
This raises the urgency of dealing with the bug in plasma-pa to remove gconf
dependency. Please look into this issue (Debian Bug #886048) again and solve
it ASAP.
Indeed.
Note that I do not plan to reintroduce the gconf module, so fixing this in plasma-pa is important.