Re: Bug#887649: cdebconf-gtk-terminal: Please don't depend on unmaintained vte
- To: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>, 887649@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: debian-release@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#887649: cdebconf-gtk-terminal: Please don't depend on unmaintained vte
- From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:12:01 +0000
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2020 at 11:46:56 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> (2020-09-03):
> > One way to resolve [needing a libstdc++ udeb]
> > might be to build the vte2.91 udeb with
> > -static-libstdc++, which makes it about 200K larger than it would
> > otherwise have been, but avoids needing a 1.5M shared libstdc++. vte
> > exports a C ABI, and only uses C++ internally.
>
> This looks like a nice plan, thanks for the heads-up!
This happened a while ago.
However, since we're already in soft freeze, a GTK 3 port of the graphical
installer interface is clearly not something to start on right now -
so I think this has to slip to Debian 12.
Release team: I think #887649 is going to need to be bullseye-ignore.
smcv
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