Control: severity -1 serious Hello,
It would be very welcome with atleast a statement on this bug report that was filed 1.5 years ago now and is becoming increasingly problematic. The parl-desktop package is the sole reverse dependency of gnome-system-tools. The gnome-system-tools has been deprecated and unmaintained upstream for many years, more info in #888670 There are no real plans for how the debian package is going to get maintained, and most likely it'll end up removed when it becomes completely unrealistic to keep it around anymore. (Personally with the amount of really problematic bugs that are known with this piece of software that noone is even attempting to address, I'd say it's a dis-service to our users to offer it... but that's just me.) With the python2 removal efforts we're trying to get rid of some gnome packages that has been deprecated and unmaintained for very many years (as it's not going to get ported). One of those packages are gnome-doc-utils (which was superseeded by yelp about a decade ago). The gnome-system-tools is basically the last remaining piece which needs to stop using gnome-doc-utils -- and it needs someone to do the effort of porting it to yelp -- and noone has any remove plan for who's going to do that..... We're basically at a point where gnome-system-tools needs to be removed now, which means this bug report really needs attention! Should parl-desktop (and all of its reverse dependencies) also be removed with gnome-system-tools or should the dependency be dropped? Regards, Andreas Henriksson
