On 06/04/16 20:51, Simon McVittie wrote: > Similar question for the libraries and infrastructure bits that have > been superseded upstream and are now discouraged: Gtk 2, libgnome, > gnomevfs, gconf, gnome-desktop 2 and so on. These are particularly > annoying because some non-GNOME software that wants to "integrate with > GNOME" still uses them - for instance see Java, vim-gnome (which is a > trap, people should probably prefer vim-gtk or even the new vim-gtk3), > dia-gnome, stardict-gnome.
Those libraries and packages should be removed. We've been doing that for a while, though progress is slow. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=oldlibs More help in getting rid of that kind of packages would be very welcome. Cheers, Emilio
