[Pkg-gajim-maintainers] Bug#867958: gajim: Uses deprecated python-gnomekeyring

[biebl at debian.org]

Source: gajim
Version: 0.16.8-3
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libgnome-keyring-removal python-gnomekeyring

Hi,

The libgnome-keyring library is deprecated and its usage is strongly
discouraged [1].

Your package gajim recommends or suggests python-gnomekeyring.

gajim should switch to using the GObject Introspection bindings for
libsecret, gir1.2-secret-1. [2]

This would mean switching to GObject Introspection for other bindings
as well, e.g. GLib and GTK+, so making the switch to GTK+ 3 at the
same time would make a lot of sense.
Such a port should ideally happen with upstream being involved.

For more information on GObject Introspection see [3] and [4].

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Michael Biebl

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgnome-keyring/commit/?id=6a5adea4aec93
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libsecret
[3] https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[4] https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/PyGObject