** No longer affects: guake (Ubuntu) ** Description changed:
- The old vte source hasn't been maintained upstream since 2011 (when - GNOME 3 was released). vte will be dropped from Debian Testing soon. We - should not ship it in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The replacement is provided by - source vte2.91 (which requires gtk3). + NOTE + ==== + Debian's debian-installer (specifically cdebconf-gtk-terminal I believe) uses a udeb from the old vte package. See https://bugs.debian.org/887649 + + Original Bug Report + =================== + The old vte source hasn't been maintained upstream since 2011 (when GNOME 3 was released). vte will be dropped from Debian Testing soon. We should not ship it in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The replacement is provided by source vte2.91 (which requires gtk3). The geany-plugins will be "fixed" in Debian soon by no longer building them. sjterm was already requested for removal in LP: #1728241 guake's removal was requested in LP: #1739800 $ reverse-depends src:vte Reverse-Depends =============== * geany-plugin-debugger (for libvte9) * geany-plugin-multiterm (for libvte9) * geany-plugin-scope (for libvte9) * gnoemoe (for libvte9) * gnome-genius (for libvte9) * guake (for python-vte) * hotssh (for python-vte) * lcrt (for libvte9) * pypar2 (for python-vte) * rasmol [amd64 arm64 armhf i386 s390x] (for libvte9) * stjerm (for libvte9) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1740804 Title: Remove old vte package from Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/genius/+bug/1740804/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs