Re: Bug#1111219: glade: unmaintained and archived upstream
On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 at 14:27:00 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
glade was archived upstream last year which means that bug fixes, bug
reports, and translations are no longer accepted. Therefore, we will
likely remove glade from Debian for forky.
There are a few reverse dependencies and some of them are rather heavily
used: https://people.debian.org/~smcv/temp/2025/mbf-glade/
- gnunet-gtk: orphaned in Debian
- appears to be mandatory, hard to tell
- libhandy-1: GNOME, key package
- rdeps: gnome-control-center, among others
- can build with -Dglade_catalog=disabled but I don't know whether
it will break rdeps
- libpeas: GNOME, has non-trivial rdeps, key package?
- budgie-desktop, eog, gedit, rhythmbox, totem among others
- can build with -Dglade_catalog=false but I don't know whether
it will break rdeps
- libpeas2: GNOME, has non-trivial rdeps
- gnome-builder among others
- might be an obsolete dependency, I don't see any code references
- libxfce4ui: XFCE, key package
- basically all of XFCE!
- appears to be compile-time-optional
- syncevolution: maintained in Debian but quite possibly dead upstream
- possibly an obsolete dependency, I haven't looked closely
It looks like they're all using the libgladeui library, not the actual
app. We likely need at least a mini-mass-bug-filing for this.
smcv
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