Bug#967808: gtkgl2: appears to be unmaintained upstream

2020-09-20 Thread Nicolas Boulenguez
Package: src:gtkgl2
Followup-For: Bug #967808

Just in case it helps taking a decision: as author of the recent NMUs,
I support the removal.



Bug#967808: gtkgl2: appears to be unmaintained upstream

2020-08-04 Thread Simon McVittie
Source: gtkgl2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream wontfix
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gtkgl2

gtkgl2 appears to have become unmaintained upstream:

* http://www.mono-project.com/GtkGLArea redirects to
  https://www.mono-project.com/archived/gtkglarea/ which points to
  http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gtkglarea/ which no longer exists

* I cannot find an archived project for it on gitlab.gnome.org, the
  replacement for git.gnome.org

* https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkglarea/2.0/ latest release
  was in 2009

and perhaps also in Debian:

* the most recent maintainer upload was in 2011

* the 2009 2.1.0 release reached Debian as an NMU, despite the Debian
  maintainer being an upstream maintainer

New software should almost certainly not use this, and it might be time
to remove it from Debian.

smcv