Your message dated Wed, 20 May 2026 11:04:25 +0000
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and subject line Bug#895350: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1112418,
regarding libgnomecanvas: Build-Depends on unmaintained gnome-common
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Source: libgnomecanvas
Severity: important
Tags: sid forky
Control: block 1112389 by -1
User: [email protected]
Usertags: oldlibs gnome-common
This source package Build-Depends on gnome-common, a collection of
autoconf macros formerly used by GNOME, which was deprecated 10 years
ago.
gnome-common is now unmaintained upstream and has been moved to a
read-only archive, meaning that issue reports and merge requests will
not be accepted, even if a serious problem is found.
Please remove this dependency. One popular way to do this is to convert
the upstream build system from Autotools to Meson (or CMake) which will
often make it more maintainable and understandable. Meson is now GNOME's
preferred build system.
If the upstream developer prefers to stay with Autotools, please replace
gnome-common Autoconf macros with autoconf-archive Autoconf macros, and
replace gnome-autogen.sh with a local copy. For more details see GNOME's
porting guide:
* https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects(2f)GnomeCommon(2f)Migration.html
wiki.gnome.org is also being phased out. If it disappears, use this
archived copy of the porting guide:
*
https://web.archive.org/web/20250829115144/https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects(2f)GnomeCommon(2f)Migration.html
Thanks,
smcv
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Version: 2.30.3-4.1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package libgnomecanvas has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/895350
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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