Please remove Rust GTK3 packages

[Jeremy Bícha]

rust-gtk (the GTK3 library) is no longer maintained upstream. It is causing difficulty in updating to the latest version of the Rust GTK library stack (associated with GNOME 46) because we would need to be responsible to porting the libraries to the latest rust-glib etc. ourselves.

There are almost no maintained apps using the old rust-gtk. In Debian, those few apps will probably vendor rust-gtk, but we are out of time for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Therefore, please remove these packages from Ubuntu:

rust-atk
rust-atk-sys
rust-gdk-sys
rust-gdkx11
rust-gdkx11-sys
rust-gdk
rust-gtk3-macros
rust-gtk
rust-gtk-sys
rust-gtk-layer-shell-sys
qwertone
squeekboard (Despite its name, I'm told that phosh-osk-stub is actually a better mobile on-screen keyboard)

Related Debian bugs:
https://bugs.debian.org/1069111
https://bugs.debian.org/1064375

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Matthias Geiger is working on vendoring the rust-gtk3 libaries into the qwertone packaging so I suggest keeping qwertone in noble-proposed for now, because that might be salvaged before Noble is released.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Removing packages from noble:
 rust-atk 0.18.0-3 in noble
  librust-atk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble amd64
  librust-atk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble arm64
  librust-atk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble armhf
  librust-atk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble ppc64el
  librust-atk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble riscv64
  librust-atk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble s390x
 rust-atk-sys 0.18.0-2 in noble
  librust-atk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble amd64
  librust-atk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble arm64
  librust-atk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble armhf
  librust-atk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble ppc64el
  librust-atk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble riscv64
  librust-atk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble s390x
 rust-gdk-sys 0.18.0-2 in noble
  librust-gdk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble amd64
  librust-gdk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble arm64
  librust-gdk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble armhf
  librust-gdk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble ppc64el
  librust-gdk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble riscv64
  librust-gdk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble s390x
 rust-gdkx11 0.18.0-3 in noble
  librust-gdkx11-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble amd64
  librust-gdkx11-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble arm64
  librust-gdkx11-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble armhf
  librust-gdkx11-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble ppc64el
  librust-gdkx11-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble riscv64
  librust-gdkx11-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble s390x
 rust-gdkx11-sys 0.18.0-2 in noble
  librust-gdkx11-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble amd64
  librust-gdkx11-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble arm64
  librust-gdkx11-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble armhf
  librust-gdkx11-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble ppc64el
  librust-gdkx11-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble riscv64
  librust-gdkx11-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble s390x
 rust-gdk 0.18.0-3 in noble
  librust-gdk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble amd64
  librust-gdk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble arm64
  librust-gdk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble armhf
  librust-gdk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble ppc64el
  librust-gdk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble riscv64
  librust-gdk-dev 0.18.0-3 in noble s390x
 rust-gtk3-macros 0.18.0-2 in noble
  librust-gtk3-macros-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble amd64
  librust-gtk3-macros-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble arm64
  librust-gtk3-macros-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble armhf
  librust-gtk3-macros-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble ppc64el
  librust-gtk3-macros-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble riscv64
  librust-gtk3-macros-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble s390x
 rust-gtk 0.18.1-4 in noble
  librust-gtk-dev 0.18.1-4 in noble amd64
  librust-gtk-dev 0.18.1-4 in noble arm64
  librust-gtk-dev 0.18.1-4 in noble armhf
  librust-gtk-dev 0.18.1-4 in noble ppc64el
  librust-gtk-dev 0.18.1-4 in noble riscv64
  librust-gtk-dev 0.18.1-4 in noble s390x
 rust-gtk-sys 0.18.0-2 in noble
  librust-gtk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble amd64
  librust-gtk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble arm64
  librust-gtk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble armhf
  librust-gtk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble ppc64el
  librust-gtk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble riscv64
  librust-gtk-sys-dev 0.18.0-2 in noble s390x
Comment: not maintained upstream, unused in Ubuntu, lp: #2061846
Remove [y|N]? y
9 packages successfully removed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

$ ./remove-package -m "not maintained upstream, unused in Ubuntu, lp: #2061846" -s noble-proposed rust-gtk-layer-shell-sys
Removing packages from noble-proposed:
 rust-gtk-layer-shell-sys 0.7.0-1 in noble
Comment: not maintained upstream, unused in Ubuntu, lp: #2061846
Remove [y|N]? y
1 package successfully removed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

$ ./remove-package -m "depends on the deprecated rust-gtk, lp: #2061846" -s noble-proposed squeekboard
Removing packages from noble-proposed:
 squeekboard 1.22.0-5build1 in noble
Comment: depends on the deprecated rust-gtk, lp: #2061846
Remove [y|N]? y
1 package successfully removed.