Bug#885530: gwyddion: Build-Depends on unmaintained pygtk

2017-12-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:24:03PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I just want to mention that gtk 3 was declared long-term stable over a > year ago with the 3.22 series. Since then, nobody has cared enough > about gtk2 to do a bugfix release for gtk2. It's really not a good > idea to stay on

Bug#885530: gwyddion: Build-Depends on unmaintained pygtk

2017-12-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
I just want to mention that gtk 3 was declared long-term stable over a year ago with the 3.22 series. Since then, nobody has cared enough about gtk2 to do a bugfix release for gtk2. It's really not a good idea to stay on gtk2 any more. The whole point of an accelerated major release cycle is so

Bug#885530: gwyddion: Build-Depends on unmaintained pygtk

2017-12-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi David, thanks a lot for your quick reply. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 03:01:45AM +0100, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:50:53PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > it would be great if you would consider to migrate gwyddion to GTK+3 / > > Gnome 3. Otherwise we can not support

Bug#885530: gwyddion: Build-Depends on unmaintained pygtk

2017-12-27 Thread Yeti
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:50:53PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > it would be great if you would consider to migrate gwyddion to GTK+3 / > Gnome 3. Otherwise we can not support the packaging for Debian any > more. I already considered it – and rejected. GTK+3 migration is a major undertaking

Bug#885530: gwyddion: Build-Depends on unmaintained pygtk

2017-12-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Control: forwarded -1 David Necas (Yeti) , Petr Klapetek Control: tags -1 upstream Hi, it would be great if you would consider to migrate gwyddion to GTK+3 / Gnome 3. Otherwise we can not support the packaging for Debian any more. Kind regards

Bug#885530: gwyddion: Build-Depends on unmaintained pygtk

2017-12-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Source: gwyddion Version: 2.49-1 Severity: important User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs pygtk Tags: sid buster pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3 was released in 2011. The way forward is to port your app to use GObject