#885778 swami: Depends on libgnomecanvas

Package:
src:swami
Source:
swami
Submitter:
Jeremy Bicha
Date:
2026-04-10 07:47:13 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#885778#5
Date:
2017-12-29 20:12:00 UTC
From:
To:
As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with
the old libgnome (and related) libraries. These libraries have been
deprecated and unmaintained for several years.

Your package depends and or build-depends on libgnomecanvas.

Please port your package to GTK3 and related maintained libraries.
Otherwise, please consider requesting that your package be removed from
Debian to help us complete this goal.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/10/msg00299.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha
#885778#10
Date:
2017-12-29 22:29:40 UTC
From:
To:
2017-12-29 21:12 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>:


​Hi ​Joshua,

as you see swami needs to be ported to GTK3 otherwise will be removed from
debian
with next debian release.
Please let me know if there is a plan such update.

best regards

mira
#885778#15
Date:
2018-01-01 17:34:17 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Mira,

While I do plan on porting Swami to GTK3 at some point, it is not a trivial
task and I haven't had much time for it.  I'll definitely keep this in mind
in regards to Debian removing it if it isn't ported and prioritize this
accordingly.  When would a port need to be completed in order to continue
to be a part of Debian?

Best regards,

Element
#885778#20
Date:
2018-01-01 18:47:15 UTC
From:
To:
2018-01-01 18:34 GMT+01:00 Element Green <jgreen@users.sourceforge.net>:

​Hello Joshua,

thank you for reply ... release date for Buster wasn't set yet but I guess
it will be sometime about June 2019 ...
so there is a time.

best regards

mira​
#885778#25
Date:
2018-01-02 02:37:31 UTC
From:
To:
Thank you for the info.  Should give me enough time to do the port.

Best regards,

Element
#885778#30
Date:
2018-03-22 04:24:41 UTC
From:
To:
As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" with
the old libgnome (and related) libraries. As part of this process, I
am now raising the severity of this bug.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha
#885778#37
Date:
2018-09-04 06:51:09 UTC
From:
To:
libgnomecanvas has been adopted and will be in buster.

It is still recommended to migrate away from the obsolete libgnomecanvas,
but this is now no longer a release critical issue for buster.

cu
Adrian
#885778#60
Date:
2026-04-10 07:44:50 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package swami has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1133027

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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