Ingo Saitz wrote:
Moin
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:22:57PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote:
Popcon is fairly high but while working on a patch to build it with
Gtk2, I got in contact with the upstream developer who thinks it should
no longer be needed and he has certainly done no development on it
recently. (In the last 10 years in his words).
I'd like to question that decision. If the package has a high popcon
rating, there clearly IS demand from people. Maybe the author does not
have any use for it anymore, but that is no reason to deny any use of
the package.
Do you have any more details from the author, especially what is there
to replace the functionality of gtkfontsel?
Thanks
Ingo Saitz
Ingo,
Here is the exact response from the author:
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I'm not sure it is needed any more. It was only really a test of the old
font selection widget anyway.
I think the code is pretty trivial anyway, so is probably easy to update
to GTK+ 2 if it is needed. (I can't even remember it - it was done about
10 years ago!)
Damon
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I actually starting trying to port it to Gtk2 but as Thomas mentions, it has
been orphaned for over a year so does anyone really care about it that much?
It has had bug #159412 since 2002 with no response.
#248243 since 2004 with no response.
#98057 since 2001 with no response.
etc.
Certainly, if you use it, please port it to Gtk2, take over maintenance, upload
it.
Thank you,
Barry deFreese
Debian QA
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