FFe: Sync gnome-dictionary 3.25.90-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

[Jeremy Bícha]

Please sync gnome-dictionary 3.25.90-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

Explanation of FeatureFreeze exception:

The new version switches to the meson build system and drop libgdict. The library has only one reverse dependency: gtranslator has an optional plugin that is supposed to embed the dictionary.

gtranslator is basically unmaintained. That plugin was dropped from git master years ago.

I hesitated packaging the new version because of the library removal but it looks like there is no objection to removing the library in Debian.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-dictionary/tree/NEWS

Since 3.25.90, there is one major code change: to switch the manpage source from troff to XML for easier maintainability.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-dictionary/log/

Changelog entries since current artful version 3.24.0-1:

gnome-dictionary (3.25.90-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    - Remove libgdict
  * Build with meson
  * Add install-man.patch: Cherry-pick patch to fix manpage installation
  * debian/copyright: Exclude docs/rfc2229.txt since it's non-free

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:34:00 -0400

Changelog entries since current artful version granslator 2.91.7-3:

gtranslator (2.91.7-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Drop Build-Depends on libgdict-1.0-dev since gnome-dictionary 3.26
    no longer provides this library.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.0

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:10:24 -0400

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

now in proposed, I don't think this was a new feature, and I don't think dropping a dependency is considered a new feature too... anyway, it was a really border line case, lets hope release can clarify if needed