Your message dated Sat, 24 May 2025 18:49:57 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1106236: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1008060,
regarding pcb: pcb-gtk could suggest pcb-rnd (natural upgrade path when gtk2
phases out)
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Source: pcb
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
gtk2 is likely to be removed from Debian in the not too far future,
#947713.
I am following the development of pcb, and I don't think the project has
the resources for porting to gtk3 or gtk4 (there are hardly any commits
these days at all). Which means a gtk2 removal would force users to use
pcb-lesstif, which doesn't differ only in the GUI toolkit but offers
reduced GUI functionality (less widgets, less dialog boxes). Or it would
force users to switch to another layout editor.
Meanwhile pcb-rnd, which once started as a fork of pcb, runs fine with
gtk4 with latest librnd (already available in Debian sid). pcb-rnd can
read and write all native file formats of pcb. It has changed and
progressed a lot since the original fork, but the basic concepts and the
GUI are still somewhat similar to pcb's so pcb users would find it more
familiar than e.g. KiCad.
If gtk2 is phased out and pcb won't provide a gtk3/gtk4 HID by then, pcb
users will either need to "downgrade" to pcb-lesstif or "upgrade" to
pcb-rnd or learn a totally different branch of EDA from scratch. For
anyone who installs pcb-gtk, it may be easy to find pcb-lesstif, but it
may be less trivial to find pcb-rnd as a "natural upgrade path".
Thus I propose pcb-gtk could Suggest pcb-rnd. This would help users learn
about pcb-rnd as a natural alternative to pcb-gtk, before they are forced
to change their habits, may pcb fail to port to gtk3/gtk4 in time.
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1:4.3.0-4+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package pcb has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1106236
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
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