Source: libgtk2-perl Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: jbi...@debian.org User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org Usertags: gtk2-removal User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs
The Debian GNOME Maintainers are working to reduce GTK+ 2 usage in Debian. GTK+ 3 has been declared stable with its 3.22 release in September 2016. Bullseye will likely be frozen early 2021, which will already have given upstream authors more than four years to migrate. The GTK+ 2 bindings for Perl are stable but nobody is actively working on them: the last time significant fixes were committed upstream was in 2015 and nobody is following up on the bug reports anymore. So I'd be uncomfortable seeing us commit to support this stack until mid-2024 (likely end of Bullseye security support), let alone mid-2016 (LTS). Therefore, I intend to remove libgtk2-perl from testing soon after the Buster release, and then from sid later during the Bullseye development cycle. I'll file bug reports soonish against all reverse-dependencies so their maintainers have a couple years to find a solution. I've personally ported a couple Perl GTK+ apps from 2.x to 3.x and it's mostly straightforward. Upstream for libgtk3-perl and libglib-object-introspection-perl is responsive and happy to add any bits that may be missing. If critical bits of Debian still depend on libgtk2-perl (d-i?), please let me know :) Cheers, -- intrigeri
