On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:00:26PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > > Please remove gtk+1.2 from unstable. The last upstream release was 8 > years ago, and there isn???t any kind of maintenance happening on it, > either upstream or in Debian. > > This will immediately make all reverse dependencies uninstallable, but > this is desirable. Those who can???t be updated will need to be removed as > well. They have had plenty of time to switch to GTK+ 2.X now. We > shouldn???t be struggling with GTK+ 1.2 while already planning the > introduction of GTK+ 3.
Barry deFreese and myself are currently working on yanking GTK 1.2 et al out, the current state of affairs is tracked at http://wiki.debian.org/Gtk1.2ImlibGnome1Removals It's still in flux and some packages are currently being ported, so we don't probably need an immediate removal. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
