On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 07:01:28PM +0100, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Moritz,
>
> I didn't upload new releases simply because there were none, and there
> were none simply because the required upgrade - to gtk 3 and gobject
> introspection - has so far not been completed. There was already a bug¹
> tracking that problem.
>
> This was not an abandoned package, I was fully aware it had this
> problematic dependency on pygtk, that it would eventually be removed
> from unstable if the problem was not solved, and I was in contact with
> upstream to understand if an upgrade plan was feasible.
And that bug has _zero_ information that you did any of that.
> I would have
> expected someone to try to contact me/the upstream developer -
> respectively - before declaring it "dead upstream" and "unmaintained"
> and removing it in 1 day.
You were contacted via the bug and provided no feedback whatsoever.
Your package is not a standalone, it's part of a complex system of
components which interact with each other, we can't just ping people
over and over when doing bigger-scale changes.
If you come up with a port to gtk3 simply reupload it.
Cheers,
Moritz
