On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > GNOME no longer uses libgnomekbd, and its git repository has been moved > to https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/libgnomekbd and archived. This means > that it no longer accepts issue reports or merge requests, even if a > serious problem is found. > > The remaining projects that depend on libgnomekbd appear to be > gnome-screensaver (which has, itself, been archived upstream: #895477) > and several Cinnamon packages. > > Perhaps the Cinnamon team would be interested in forking libgnomekbd and > becoming its new upstream maintainers? If not, then we should eventually > remove it from Debian. > > (X-Debbugs-Cc to budgie-desktop because some budgie-desktop packages > seem to depend on gnome-screensaver, and therefore indirectly depend on > libgnomekbd.)
I didn't look at the code but I noticed that this week Debian MATE began including https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/matekbd-keyboard-display which uses the older fork of libgnomekbd, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libmatekbd Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
