Control: forcemerge 967485 -1 On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:09:30AM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hi Adrian,
Hi Hugh, > On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 03:53, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > What is the point of moving libexif-gtk to GTK3 when the only package > > using it does not support it? > > > > This sounds like a mistake that should be reverted. > > > I already have. When I realised gtkam was an issue, I updated libexif-gtk > to build both GTK 2 and 3. thanks, and sorry that I missed that. > Unfortunately, gtkam is dead upstream, so nothing will change there. > However, several good alternatives exist. > > The Debian QA team is also reluctant to remove gtkam due to its popcon > installation numbers. > > That said, as libexif-gtk will have GTK 2 support for some time, this bug > severity can probably be downgraded. I am merging this with the "depends on deprecated GTK 2" bug for gtkam. > If smcv does manage to remove GTK 2 during the next development cycle, > however, we will need to revisit this bug. >From his "depends on deprecated GTK 2" bugs: GTK 2 is used by some important productivity applications like GIMP, and has also historically been a popular UI toolkit for proprietary software that we can't change, so perhaps removing GTK 2 from Debian will never be feasible. cu Adrian
