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Hi, On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 06:37:46PM +0100, intrig...@debian.org wrote: > Source: clawsker > Severity: normal > User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: gtk2-removal > > Hi! > > This package depends on libgtk2-perl, that I intend to remove > from testing soon after the Buster release, and then from sid at > some later point during the Bullseye development cycle: > > https://bugs.debian.org/912860 > > Please get in touch with the upstream project and suggest they > port this application to libgtk3-perl. I've personally ported > a couple Perl GTK+ apps from 2.x to 3.x and it's rather > straightforward. Upstream for the GTK+ 3 and GObject > Introspection Perl bindings is responsive and happy to add > missing bits to the bindings. Can we have pointers to these migrations patches/commits/repos? I think having working examples can help upstream here. > I see that upstream is active so I expect this port should be totally > doable in this timeframe. Don't understand what do you want to mean here. Porting it to C would also be doable, and probably more future-proof, since the C library is probably the last piece to be removed. What's the expected removal date for the libgtk3-perl bindings? regards, -- Ricardo Mones ~ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Carl Sagan
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