On 23 August 2024 at 09:07, Simon McVittie wrote:
| Source: gretl
| Version: 2024b-1
| Tags: trixie sid upstream
| Control: block 996689 by -1
| User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
| Usertags: oldlibs
| 
| gtksourceview3 was superseded in 2018 by gtksourceview4 (a new major
| upstream release, but still using GTK 3). There's a porting guide here,
| which is mostly "stop using deprecated APIs" plus a few function renames:
| 
https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtksourceview/gtksourceview5/porting-guide-3-to-4.html
| 
| gtksourceview3 is unmaintained and hasn't had an upstream release for more
| than 5 years, so it would be great if the remaining gtksourceview3
| applications can move to gtksourceview4 before trixie.
| 
| gtksourceview4 has itself been superseded by gtksourceview5, which is
| for GTK 4 applications. Ideally GTK 3 applications should move to GTK 4,
| but that's a larger and more intrusive change. Porting guide:
| https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html,
| 
https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtksourceview/gtksourceview5/porting-guide-4-to-5.html

Will do, thanks for the heads-up.

A build attempt right now on an update pbuilder failed over 'dbus : Depends:
usr-is-merged (>= 38~)' but that will hopefully sort itself out in a few hours.

Best,  Dirk

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