Bug#1019042: rust-qwertone: FTBFS - dep issue

[Matthias Geiger]

Am 10.03.24 um 19:05 schrieb Andrej Shadura:

Hi,

On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, at 15:37, Matthias Geiger wrote:

I intend to remove gtk3-rs from debian very soon (with the current
gtk4-rs transition staged in experimental).

Why the hurry? Is GTK 3 being removed as well?

Andrew: Is it ok with you if I file a ROM request for qwertone ? It's
already been that way since at least the last gtk-rs transition and
won't be viable to keep in debian imho. Upstream also seems to have
ditched the project in favour of a rewrite.

That rewrite never came, but meanwhile qwertone works quite well with gtk3-rs 
currently in Debian (since I’ve done the porting work in the latest upload).

I forgot to mention: gtk3-rs is officially EOL upstream: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs

This might be the best solution going forward.

best,

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Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
Debian Maintainer

I partially started to patch gtk3-rs to use the newer glib from experimental. However,  this is not really supported and I'd rather remove it now that it's EOL. For qwertone we can employ partial vendoring; this will also need to be done for squeekboard (in progress). I'd appreciate if you agree on vendoring gtk3-rs in so I can go ahead with my removal plans.

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