Shutter, a nice Perl application, may be removed from Debian

Hello

Debian is moving away from Gnome2::VFS. This obsolete module will be removed from next release of Debian.

Unfortunately, Shutter, a very nice Gtk2 screenshot application, depends on Gnome::VFS, which means that Shutter will be removed from Debian unless this dependency is removed from shutter. This would be a shame as Shutter is one of the best screenshot tool available on Linux and one of the best looking Perl application. And its popularity is still growing.

Shutter also provides a way to edit screenshots, for instance to mask confidential data. This graphical editor is based on Goo::Canvas which is already gone from Debian.

To be kept on Debian, Shutter must be updated:

• to use Gnome GIO instead of Gnome2::VFS
• to use GooCanvas2 instead of Goo::Canvas
• may be, to be ported to Gtk3 (that’s less urgent)

I’ve done some work to port Shutter to GIO, but I need to face reality: Maintaining cme is taking most of my free time and I don’t have the time to overhaul Shutter.

To view or clone the code, you can either:

• View upstream code repo on Launchpad
• Clone shutter from my repo on github

See also the bug reports about Shutter problems on Ubuntu bug tracker

I hope this blog will help finding someone to maintain Shutter…

All the best.