Hi,
On 19/05/2025 16:27, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2025 at 12:20:21 +0000, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
In general since libsoup2.4 has been abandoned for many years, I'm
completely fine with doing whatever that keeps it afloat in the already
shipped releases until we can hopefully completely remove it in forky.
We have been aiming to remove it since at least 2023 (see https://
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056125) and I'm intending to
raise the severity of the bugs listed in https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/
bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-
maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=libsoup2 to RC as soon as
trixie is out.
This is one of several former GNOME libraries that is dead upstream and
should be removed from Debian, but cannot be removed because it still
has rdeps. If someone in the LTS team has time available for
preemptively reducing the support cost of old libraries that are dead
upstream in future LTS releases, any progress towards reducing the
length of https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-
gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=oldlibs would be very
welcome.
After checking with the LTS Coordinators, this is referenced in the LTS
Extra Tasks :)
https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-updates-tasks/-/issues/212
Cheers!
Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team
