Bug#1029041: gftp -- X/GTK+ and console FTP client (metapackage)
Hi Andreas.
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: gftp@packages.debian.org
> Control: affects -1 + src:gftp
>
> I intend to orphan the gftp package. It looked like upstream would
> migrate to gtk3 and was a bit active, but since then the activity
> seems
> to have died off. For users using this, filezilla seems like a
> reasonable replacement. (Which I too have migrated to).
Until today, I thought I had been using an old gftp GUI. However, I was
actually using a buggy bareFTP, which was last updated over 6 years ago!
Therefore, gftp is more up-to-date and it looks like it has got more or
less the same features.
On upgrading to Bookworm, I was thinking of using a debugged bareFTP.
But that is out of the question because bareFTP basically no longer
exists, which I more or less mentioned above. This leaves gftp...! I
don't want the baggage associated with filezilla.
Therefore, can you tell me exactly what the TECHNICAL problems are which
prevent including gftp package(s) in Debian Bookworm?
The gftp "team" have an open github issue 91 (GTK3 Port Progress). The
initial comments against issue 91 show that there was initial progress
and a screenshot of the start of the GTK3 porting process.
However, reading further through the comments, I see frustration with
the GTK3 library, which includes awkward multi-threading. Plus, there
is lookahead to the current GTK4 (GTK3 is now old, apparently...), where
things look more ominous.
I also had my eye on Balsa, a GTK3 e-mail client. Balsa includes multi-
threading.
The source code activity is low on Balsa, but it is in Debian testing.
Therefore, Balsa is ready for inclusion in Debian Bookworm.
Even if there is no activity in gftp, if it were free of problems, then
I assume gftp would be packaged into Debian Bookworm...?
Looking at the last comment against issue 19, I see the following two
paragraphs...
> This branch contains preliminary work to finish the gtk3 port, it's
> somewhat old, but it can be finished anytime
> https://github.com/masneyb/gftp/commits/gtktreeview
> In this branch there are some ported patches from the fangq repo that
> add extra buttons, everything that works is already ported to the
> upstream repo I think
> https://github.com/masneyb/gftp/commits/fangq
I assume that the above does not address the technical issues which
would allow gftp to be included in Debian Bookworm?
If I can, I would like to try to help out.
[1] https://github.com/masneyb/gftp/issues/91
Thanks,
Gervase.
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