Hi,

gnome-common did a cleanup upstream and deprecated quite a few macros
and variables.

gnome-doc-utils removal
=======================
The gnome-doc-utils build infrastructure was removed completely along
with the following macros:

 GNOME_DOC_INIT [1]
 GNOME_COMMON_INIT [2]


deprecated variables
====================
The following variables used in gnome-autogen.sh have been declared
deprecated [3]:

 REQUIRED_GNOME_DOC_UTILS_VERSION
 REQUIRED_DOC_COMMON_VERSION
 USE_COMMON_DOC_BUILD
 FORBIDDEN_M4MACROS
 GNOME2_DIR
 GNOME2_PATH
 USE_GNOME2_MACROS

deprecated macros
=================
The following macros have also been declared deprecated:

 GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS [4]
 GNOME_CXX_WARNINGS [5]

Upstream has documentation at [6] with how you can fix your package and
why those particular changes were made.

According to codesearch.d.n your package keybinder-3.0 uses one of the macros or
variables so might be affected, especially once you run autoreconf. Please
update your package accordingly and forward it to upstream if possible.

If you have further question, please don't hesitate to ask.

Regards,
Michael

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=6684e2fa5
[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=1f60e9536
[3] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=4c8d8ad93
[4] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=b57bae0be
[5] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=2bffd7e1u
[6] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration

Dear Maintainer,

This bug should now be fixed upstream.

A bug was reported against this source package a while ago because it
used deprecated parts of gnome-common, a collection of autoconf macros
formerly used by GNOME.

Since then, the entire gnome-common package was deprecated (around 10
years ago). It 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.

Instead of opening a new bug, I'm expanding the scope of the
pre-existing bug report to: please remove this build-dependency
completely.

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

(none are actually used)

A commit in
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/keybinder-3.0/-/merge_requests/1>
switches from gnome-autogen.sh to a very small local script,
debian/autogen.sh. Please consider applying that MR.

     smcv