Re: Bug#886835: Should sitplus package be droped from Debian (Was: Bug#886835: sitplus fails to start because GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported)
- To: Luis Rivas <luinix@gmail.com>, 886835@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de>, Debian Med Project List <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Bug#886835: Should sitplus package be droped from Debian (Was: Bug#886835: sitplus fails to start because GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported)
- From: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:26:18 +1200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20180801042618.GA25583@survex.com>
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 04:47:48PM +0100, Luis Rivas wrote:
> On 10 January 2018 at 13:46, Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> wrote:
> > just a note for sitplus: This package definitely needs more love.
> > Upstream has released a new version a long time ago but it has split a
> > separate library which needs to be packaged separately.
> >
> > I'm personally lacking the time resources to care for this package.
> >
> > Any volunteer or is it possibly better to drop the package at all
> > if it is not running?
>
> I'm afraid I don't have the time for taking care of this package. So,
> unless someone else volunteers, probably it's for the better to drop
> the package for now.
I suspect this particular issue would be fixed by updating the wxWidgets
build-dependency from libwxgtk3.0-dev to libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev (the
former uses GTK+ 2.x, the latter GTK+ 3.x), though if nobody's able to
look after the package properly, perhaps it's better to drop it.
Cheers,
Olly
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