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Bug#934096: codelite: Please rebuild against wxWidgets GTK 3 package



>On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 07:16:36PM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
>> Your package appears to be using the wxWidgets GTK 2 implementation.  In 
>> Debian, we have had a GTK 3 implementation of wxWidgets for some time.  
>> For the bullseye release, the wxWidgets package maintainers plan to 
>> remove the GTK 2 version, so we kindly request that you switch your 
>> package to use the GTK 3 version.
>
>I had a look at this package as it's currently orphaned, so there is no
>maintainer to attend to this.
>
>Just updating the build dependencies doesn't work because configure
>assumes GTK2.
>
>It looks like a newer upstream version addresses this as
>https://wiki.codelite.org/pmwiki.php/Main/ReleaseNotesCodeLite13 says:
>
>| Make CodeLite compile and run against GTK3
>
>I think upgrading to a new major upstream version is beyond what I'm
>comfortable doing in a QA upload.
>
>I'm cc-ing David Hart who seems to be part of upstream and made a QA
>upload to update to a new upstream version earlier this year.
>
>David: Are you able to take care of updating to codelite 13.x and
>switching to GTK3?

Thank you for the notification. Yes, unless a new maintainer miraculously
appears, I'll do a QA upload of a GTK3-based codelite 13. I hope I'll have time
in the next few weeks.

Regards,

David Hart


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