On 19.06.2016 19:25, Marko Lindqvist wrote: > On 19 June 2016 at 19:33, Markus Koschany <a...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> Debian has been providing both clients in the past but Jacob Nevins >> insisted that we should remove the gtk3 client because it was too >> experimental. Did this situation change in the meantime? Is the client >> stable enough for being supported in Stretch? > > I don't think you ever provided them both simultaneously. I hope > Jacob to clarify his opinion himself, but I think we had some > misunderstanding last time. We wanted (and for freeciv-2.5 still want) > gtk2-client as the default one (one you get with 'apt-get install > freeciv') but also to have gtk3-client as an alternative to it (like > sdl-client and qt-client already are).
We provided both clients in one package back then. The reasons for removing the gtk3 client were "it was too experimental" and "Latest update of gtk+-3 libraries seem to have broken our gtk3-client quite completely" (your quote from #766185) I don't mind packaging the gtk3 client separately, just make up your mind because it must be supported if it should be part of a stable release. Markus
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