On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote: >> >> >> Note that the alternative to this less-than-perfect upgrade process is >> not glitchless status quo. It is my understanding[2] that gconf will >> eventually be forcefully removed from mainstream distros when >> sufficiently few apps use it, so the alternative is really to drop >> paprefs and module-gconf entirely in a (possibly far) future date. >> > > This is now happening in Debian. The GNOME maintainers want to drop > the gconf stack, and have filed bugs with severity serious[1] for > dropping gconf libraries. Severity serious means that the affected > packages are not suitable for release, and thus will be kicked out of > the next debian release (or the severity lowered, of course). Friendly ping. There is a patch for adding a gsettings module[1], but it has not been merged yet. It needs its companion patches to paprefs, which have not been posted but are available on github[2]. The gsettings module had only a few minor comments, but was not reviewed in full detail, as higher-level migration plans were discussed. There is also a patch for porting paprefs from GTK2 to GTK3, and in the process move away from libglade[3]. It has not been reviewed yet. In light of the forceful removal of these libraries from Debian, I think it is worthwhile to revisit this issue. At least for Debian users, the current migration plan is simply losing paprefs support. [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2016-January/025275.html [2] https://github.com/lebauce/paprefs/commits/gsettings [3] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/194950/ -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
