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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