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Re: Gtk/Gnome RC Bug Report



Le Mon, 28 Jul 2003 23:15:22 +0200
Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> a écrit:

> Mark Howard <mh344@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:35:47 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> It is possible to clean up your script ?
> >> 
> >> All package who depends on libpanel-applet0 should be not listed
> >here. All> package who depends on libgtk1.2 should not be listed
> >here.
> >
> > Why?
> > These packages are in Debian and have RC bugs, they need to be
> > fixed - even if this means removing the packages. 
> > How does the age of the packages make them any less important?
> 
> Package who depends on libpanel-applet0 should be
> removed. libpanel-applet0 doesn't exist in Debian, read these
> bugs. libgtk 1.2 packages should be ported to GTK 2.0 or removed. GTK
> 2.0 has been released in March 2002, 18 month ago in September, i
> think this is enough to do the port. In September I'll orphan or ask
> for removal all my GTK 1.2 packages who are not ported to GTK 2.0. We
> don't need to spend our times wit unmaintained packages.
> 
> Christian

You're forgeting software like Sylpheed. That still depends on GTK 1.2.
they won't port it to GTK 2 until at least version 1.0, so it's not
going to be done tomorrow...

And sylpheed is not an application to be left behind in Debian (at least
in think).

Ju

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