This source package Build-Depends on gnome-common, a collection of
autoconf macros formerly used by GNOME, which was deprecated 10 years
ago.

gnome-common is now unmaintained upstream and has been moved to a
read-only archive, meaning that issue reports and merge requests will
not be accepted, even if a serious problem is found.

Please remove this dependency. One popular way to do this is to convert
the upstream build system from Autotools to Meson (or CMake) which will
often make it more maintainable and understandable. Meson is now GNOME's
preferred build system.

If the upstream developer prefers to stay with Autotools, please replace
gnome-common Autoconf macros with autoconf-archive Autoconf macros, and
replace gnome-autogen.sh with a local copy. For more details see GNOME's
porting guide:

* https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects(2f)GnomeCommon(2f)Migration.html

wiki.gnome.org is also being phased out. If it disappears, use this
archived copy of the porting guide:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20250829115144/https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects(2f)GnomeCommon(2f)Migration.html

Thanks,
    smcv

Control: tags -1 + patch

It turns out the uses of these macros were replaced with
autoconf-archive in 2016 (see #830009), but the build-dependency is
still present. Please consider the attached patch, also available as
<https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/cups-pk-helper/-/merge_requests/2>.

I have confirmed using diffoscope that rebuilds of the current
cups-pk-helper with and without this patch have identical results.

Thanks,
     smcv

Hi Simon,

thanks a lot for your work, I will do an upload soon.

   Thorsten