Source: ares Version: 134+dfsg-1 Tags: trixie sid upstream Control: block 996689 by -1 User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs
gtksourceview3 was superseded in 2018 by gtksourceview4 (a new major upstream release, but still using GTK 3). There's a porting guide here, which is mostly "stop using deprecated APIs" plus a few function renames: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtksourceview/gtksourceview5/porting-guide-3-to-4.html gtksourceview3 is unmaintained and hasn't had an upstream release for more than 5 years, so it would be great if the remaining gtksourceview3 applications can move to gtksourceview4 before trixie. I was surprised to see that ares has a build-dependency on libgtksourceview-3.0-dev, but no runtime dependency: is its use of GtkSourceView working correctly? If it isn't actually needed, then perhaps the dependency could just be removed without losing functionality? gtksourceview4 has itself been superseded by gtksourceview5, which is for GTK 4 applications. Ideally GTK 3 applications should move to GTK 4, but that's a larger and more intrusive change. Porting guide: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html, https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtksourceview/gtksourceview5/porting-guide-4-to-5.html Thanks, smcv
