The port to Gobject Introspection and Gtk3 is practically done now, just not merged in yet.
On 4 Oct 2017 1:28 p.m., "Martin Quinson" <martin.quin...@ens-rennes.fr> wrote: > Hello dear developers, > > [I hope that this is the right channel for this. Please be patient if not] > > I come to you to raise you awareness on the state of NS3 in Debian. It > suffers of two bugs concerning the graphical interface(s). One of them > is seen "important", meaning that ns3 will not be part of the next > Debian release (and it will also be dropped by derivative > distributions such as Ubuntu). > > The problems are described here and here: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785565 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=875071 > > In short, the first bug is about the dependency on pygoocanvas, that > will soon be removed from Debian. If ns3 keeps depending on it, ns3 > will be completely removed also (it is already removed from the > "testing" rolling release, and will be completely wipped out if we > don't take any action). > > The second bug is about the same kind of issue with Qt4. But I think > we have more time to react (as described in the bug report). > > So, my question is to know whether you have any plan to replace these > dependencies with the modern versions of these functionnality (gir in > the case of pygoocanvas IIRC, and Qt5 in the other case). > > Also, if you have an easy way to drop these dependencies (by disabling > them at build time), that could solve the issue on our side. I know I > should RTFM for that, but I fail to find the time, and I would > appreciate this help in the package maintainance, please. The current > build receipe is here (that's a makefile): > http://sources.debian.net/src/ns3/3.26%2Bdfsg-1/debian/rules/ > If you're interested, the build logs are here: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ns3&suite=sid > > When answering this email, that'd be great if you could keep the bug > reports in CC so that we can keep track of it from the Debian > perspective. > > -- > You have a problem and decide to use git. > Now you have a forest of subtly incompatible solutions. >