Bug#850265: Please stop using libgnome / libgnomeui

[Michael Biebl]

Source: firefox
Version: 50.1.0-1
Severity: normal

I noticed that firefox has a
  Build-Depends: libgnome2-dev, libgnomeui-dev,
and
  Suggests libgnomeui-0

Reading the configure switch for gnomeui, it says:

--enable-gnomeui        Enable libgnomeui instead of GIO & GTK for icon
theme support

Do we really want that? libgnomeui has long been deprecated and is dead
upstream. Is it providing anything that GIO & GTK don't?

If not, can we drop those dependencies please so we can get rid of
libgnome/libgnomeui eventually.

Thanks for considering.


Michael



-- Package-specific info:


-- Addons package information
ii  firefox        50.1.0-1     amd64        Mozilla Firefox web browser
ii  gnome-shell    3.22.2-1     amd64        graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii  rhythmbox-plug 3.4.1-2      amd64        plugins for rhythmbox music playe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- no debconf information