Source: gnome-system-tools
Severity: important
Control: affects -1 src:liboobs src:system-tools-backends
gnome-system-tools is no longer maintained by the GNOME project. Its
most recent release was in 2010 and its most recent git commit was in
2012. Its dependencies liboobs and system-tools-backends do not appear
to be maintained by their previous upstream developers either.
In GNOME 3, the closest equivalent of gnome-system-tools is
gnome-control-center, which uses different libraries and services
(for example it alters the properties of user login accounts via
AccountsService, and does networking by configuring NetworkManager and
BlueZ).
Because gnome-system-tools and the stack around it carry out sysadmin
tasks, they are likely to be security-sensitive. I don't think they
should be in Debian without someone (possibly the same person as their
Debian maintainer) taking on the upstream maintainer role.
If you intend to be the upstream maintainer of gnome-system-tools
and its dependencies, please fork it and host upstream source code,
bug tracking etc. in some stable location. To avoid misrepresenting the
status of this package, it would also be a good idea to rename the fork
to something that doesn't imply that GNOME is still responsible for it.
The package's Description also seems misleading: in particular it is
no longer true that it has "Full integration with the new GNOME Control
Center".
smcv
