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gnome-screensaver (which has, itself, been archived upstream: #895477)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.)

    smcv

Il 13/01/2025 15:40, Simon McVittie ha scritto:

On cinnamon will be probably replaced as part of wayland support
(https://github.com/linuxmint/wayland/issues/14), it is not defined yet
when, at the moment wayland support does not seem to be a priority, even
if it is slowly proceeding with something in each new major version.

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

On cinnamon there is a work in progress that will remove/replace use of
libgnomekbd: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pull/12758

I don't know when it will be ready, I haven't followed it well or tested
it but that remake seems quite big to me and I suppose it might not be
completed for the next version of cinnamon but it will take more time

I'm raising the severity because it looks doable for libgnomekbd to be
removed from Debian before Debian 14 is released.
budgie-control-center in experimental no longer uses libgnomekbd.

Cinnamon 6.6 no longer uses libgnomekbd according to
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena_whatsnew.php

Cinnamon has a lot of components so I don't know if every piece was
ported away from libgnomekbd yet. (I know that cinnamon-screensaver
still uses caribou for instance.). Practically, libgnomekbd won't be
removed from Testing as long as Cinnamon uses it, according to the
current way Debian defines key packages.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

https://people.debian.org/~smcv/temp/2025/mbf-libgnomekbd/

and in addition to cinnamon-screensaver, the answer is:

cinnamon
cinnamon-control-center
cinnamon-settings-daemon
gnome-screensaver
xapp

I'll open bugs if they don't already exist.

     smcv

Done. I didn't bother to open a new bug for gnome-screensaver since it's
on its way to being removed anyway, but we can use #895477.

     smcv

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as the package libgnomekbd has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
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