Re: getting rid of libgtk2.0-0png3
Unforunately, sinek can't be recompiled against libxine1, so simply
rebuilding it is not an option (trust me, if it was, I would've done it
already). Porting to the xine-1.0 api has taken some considerable
redesign work upstream, which ended up w/ me rewriting a large portion of
sinek. sinek-0.8 will allow us to build against libxine1, but that isn't
in a releasable state atm.
> There are only 6 packages remaining in unstable that have a dependency
> on the libgtk2.0-0png3 stub package. These are celestia, gimp-freetype,
> gkdebconf, libdianewcanvas2, libgtkgl2.0-1 and sinek (some of these
> package names seem familiar from when we were recompiling things to use
> libgtk2.0-0png3 when it was the real package! =).
>
> If only for cosmetic reasons, it would be quite nice if they could be
> recompiled to use to use a newer libgtk2.0-0 dependency, and the stub
> package for libgtk2.0-0png3 could then be removed before it hits testing
> and has a chance of releasing with sarge.
>
> I have CC'd the maintainers of all these packages, and my offer is to
> NMU and rebuild these packages and set a build-depend on the post
> libgtk2.0-0 replacement version of libgtk2.0-dev. If you would like to
> take me up on this offer, please let me know, or just rebuild the
> packages yourself if you have a spare moment.
>
> Regards,
> Rob
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