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Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2



Hi,

GTK+ 1.2 has been deprecated upstream for 6 years. There is no security
support for it, and no new applications using it have been out for quite
a long time as well.

I think it is more than time to remove it from the archive. Of course,
this can only be done after we have dealt with the reverse dependencies.
For them, there are not many solutions:
      * Look for alternatives using GTK+ 2.x. For most utilities and
        games, they already exist, whether already in the archive or
        somewhere else ready to be packaged.
      * Port to GTK+ 2.x. Depending on the application, this can be a
        trivial or very large task, and it requires a bit of motivation.
      * Simply drop the application from the archive.


Here is a first list of packages that could either be removed right now
because they seem to have replacements, or updated with little work. If
there are no objections, I think we should ask for removal of all of
those which don’t have a GTK+ 2 version.

Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <geiger@debian.org>
   shaketracker
 => we have other sequencers in the archive
   swami
 => upstream is currently porting it to GTK+ 2

Marc Dequènes (Duck) <Duck@DuckCorp.org>
   worlded
 => no upstream news for 4 years, we have better such games in the
    archive

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
   gcrontab
 => gnome-schedule

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
   gtimer
 => hamster-applet, gnotime

Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
   snowflake
 => just a toy

Ernesto Nadir Crespo Avila <ecrespo@debianvenezuela.org>
   xwhois
 => gnome-nettool

Bradley Bell <btb@debian.org>
   gtkmm

Jon Bernard <jbernard@debian.org>
   e16menuedit
 => we don’t ship E16 anymore

Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
   gato
 => gnome-schedule

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@debian.org>
   wmclockmon
 => Yet Another WindowMaker Applet

Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org>
   powertweak
 => Is that still relevant with modern power management policies?

Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
   xarchon
 => Unmaintained upstream for 5 years, we’re not lacking games
   xpuyopuyo
 => flobopuyo, cuyo…

Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com>
   gtk-engines-lighthouseblue

Patryk Cisek <patryk@prezu.one.pl>
   kadu
 => pidgin

Debian Electronics Team <pkg-electronics-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
   gwave
 => gtkwave

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
   lmemory
 => gcompris ?

Tim Dijkstra <tim@famdijkstra.org>
   digitaldj
 => prokyon3

Randall Donald <rdonald@debian.org>
   gradio
 => gnomeradio

Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>
   pinentry
 => just need to disable the GTK+ 1.2 build

Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
   aria
 => gwget
   manedit
 => gmanedit

Devid Filoni <d.filoni@techemail.com>
   dillo
 => there is a new upstream based on FLTK

Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
   predict (U)

Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
   gnome-libs
   gtkfontsel
   gtkglarea
   imlib
   netdude
   sqlrelay
   stegdetect

 => QA-maintained packages should be removed as soon as they don’t have
    remaining rdeps

Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org>
   amoeba
 => just a toy, and we have rss-glx

Wartan Hachaturow <wart@debian.org>
   grpn
 => calcoo

John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
   gpppon
 => gnome-ppp

Uwe Hermann <uwe@debian.org>
   cccd
 => we have so many CD players that I won’t list them
   powershell
 => gnome-terminal, xfterm…

Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
   gqcam
 => cheese…

Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
   xbindkeys-config
 => I think we have quite a number of key->event managers already

Steffen Joeris <white@debian.org>
   xoscope
 => extace

Matthew Johnson <mjj29@debian.org>
   gbib
 => pybliographer ?

Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>
   libdv
 => we just need to stop building libdv-bin

Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@debian.org>
   fvwm (U)

Antonin Kral <A.Kral@sh.cvut.cz>
   gtkguitune
 => lingot

Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org>
   mbrowse
 => tkmib + at least 2 online services doing the same

Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
   gwave (U)

Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>
   gnome-lokkit
 => so many iptables frontends…

Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>
   wxwindows2.4
 => no remaining rdeps

Jacob Luna Lundberg <jacob@gnifty.net>
   xscorch
 => atanks, scorched3d

Eduardo Marcel Macan <macan@debian.org>
   vertex
 => blender ?

Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
   codebreaker
 => gnome-mastermind

OHURA Makoto <ohura@debian.org>
   tex-guy
 => xgdvi can be replaced by evince and many others
   xemacs21
 => maybe we need to wait for emacs23

Paul Mangan <claws@thewildbeast.co.uk>
   sylpheed-gtk1 (U)

Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>
   qiv
 => yay, an image viewer

GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.org>
   lm-batmon
 => yay, a battery monitor

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
   guile-gtk-1.2
   gwave (U)

Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org>
   sylpheed-gtk1
 => sylpheed-claws

Stephen M Moraco <stephen@debian.org>
   karpski
 => wireshark

Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
   gdk-pixbuf

Francesco Namuri <francesco@namuri.it>
   lopster
 => did you know that Napster was shut down?

Kari Pahula <kaol@debian.org>
   crossfire-client
 => just need to disable the GTK+ 1.2 build

Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>
   zangband
 => yay, a rogue game

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
   cheops
 => I don’t think we have a similar tool, but all the functionality  
    should be covered by combining 2 or 3 of them.
   i2e
 => We have more generic and modern dictionary tools

Víctor Pérez Pereira <vperez@debianvenezuela.org>
   gfslicer
 => Several tools can build multi-file archives, which boils down to the
    same functionality in a more portable way

Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>
   gaby
 => I think we have a number of such tools already
   geg
 => lybniz, kmplot

Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
   wmmaiload
 => Yay, a WindowMaker dockapp

Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>
   gbase
 => gcalctool and many others
   gentoo
 => yay, a file manager
   gman
 => yelp and many others

Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>
   lmemory (U)

Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
   libjsw

Stefan Schimanski <schimmi@debian.org>
   qtpixmap

Alexander Schmehl <tolimar@debian.org>
   xdialog
 => zenity

Alain Schroeder <alain@debian.org>
   gsnes9x
 => visualboyadvance ?

Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
   sylpheed-gtk1 (U)

Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
   gbuffy
 => Yay, a mail notification tool

Roberto Suarez Soto <turgon@debian.org>
   wallp
 => drapes

Wolfgang Sourdeau <was@debian.org>
   ghfaxviewer
 => Yay, a picture viewer with a restricted scope

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
   fvwm
 => Why does it depend on both GTK+ 1.2 and 2.x ?

Joop Stakenborg <pa3aba@debian.org>
   baycomepp (U)
   baycomusb (U)
   hf (U)

Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
   gcvs
 => At least the toolkit is assorted to the VCS. Many IDEs or editors 
    still have a CVS plugin anyway.
   gps
 => gnome-system-monitor and many others

Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
   libgtkimreg
   paul
 => Yay, an imaging library and an image viewer

Marcela Tiznado <mlt@debian.org>
   gtkgo
 => quarry

Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org>
   directory-administrator
 => gq + several web-based such frontends

Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>
   soundtracker
 => there are a few other trackers, especially ardour, although none of 
    them uses the MOD/XM format

Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
   corewars
 => maybe we should package pmars instead?

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
   putty
 => hotwire, a plain terminal…

Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>
   mountapp
 => yay, a dockapp

Rafal Zawadzki <bluszcz@jabberpl.org>
   wmshutdown
 => yay, a dockapp


For the following packages, I didn’t find any trivial solution, so this
needs further investigation.

A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
   predict

Nicolas Boullis <nboullis@debian.org>
   mah-jong

Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@lists.debian.org>
   baycomepp
   baycomusb
   hf

Manuel Garcia <mannyto@gmail.com>
   crank

Yu Guanghui <ygh@debian.org>
   sulu

Uwe Hermann <uwe@debian.org>
   pixelize

Steffen Joeris <steffen.joeris@skolelinux.de>
   gpsim-led
   gpsim-logic

Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>
   dbmix
   ygraph

Carlos Laviola <claviola@debian.org>
   lazarus

Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>
   ledcontrol
   xt

Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
   perspic

Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
   gtalk

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
   baycomepp (U)
   baycomusb (U)
   hf (U)

Jose M. Moya <josem@die.upm.es>
   kmd

Mazen Neifer <mazen@freepascal.org>
   lazarus (U)

Patrick Ouellette <pouelle@debian.org>
   baycomepp (U)
   baycomusb (U)
   hf (U)

Jaime Robles <jaime@debian.org>
   baycomepp (U)
   baycomusb (U)
   hf (U)

Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>
   gtkpool

Ryan Schultz <schultz.ryan@gmail.com>
   psemu-input-padjoy
   psemu-sound-peops
   psemu-video-x11

Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>
   linpopup

Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
   python-visual

Riccardo Stagni <unriccio@email.it>
   gcx

Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>
   pilrc

Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>
   lazarus (U)
   python-visual (U)


Cheers,
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