#895349 libart-lgpl: deprecated and unmaintained upstream

Package:
libart-2.0-2
Source:
libart-lgpl
Description:
Library of functions for 2D graphics - runtime files
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-06-23 07:09:04 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#895349#5
Date:
2018-04-10 10:45:41 UTC
From:
To:
libart was superseded by Cairo and GDK-Pixbuf, and is now unmaintained,
with few changes in the last decade.

libart should not be used in new code, and old code should be migrated
away from it.

    smcv

#895349#10
Date:
2026-05-05 08:32:00 UTC
From:
To:
Please do not release libart-lgpl with forky and consider removing this
package. The last rdep is filed for removal.

#895349#17
Date:
2026-06-23 07:07:03 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package libart-lgpl 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/1135739

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
earliest.

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