Your message dated Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:18:27 +0000
with message-id <e1myplb-000dti...@fasolo.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#986109: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #912860,
regarding Don't ship libgtk2-perl in Bullseye
to be marked as done.
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Source: libgtk2-perl
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: jbi...@debian.org
User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: gtk2-removal
User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs
The Debian GNOME Maintainers are working to reduce GTK+ 2 usage in
Debian. GTK+ 3 has been declared stable with its 3.22 release in
September 2016. Bullseye will likely be frozen early 2021, which will
already have given upstream authors more than four years to migrate.
The GTK+ 2 bindings for Perl are stable but nobody is actively working
on them: the last time significant fixes were committed upstream was
in 2015 and nobody is following up on the bug reports anymore. So I'd
be uncomfortable seeing us commit to support this stack until mid-2024
(likely end of Bullseye security support), let alone mid-2016 (LTS).
Therefore, I intend to remove libgtk2-perl from testing soon after the
Buster release, and then from sid later during the Bullseye
development cycle. I'll file bug reports soonish against all
reverse-dependencies so their maintainers have a couple years to find
a solution.
I've personally ported a couple Perl GTK+ apps from 2.x to 3.x and
it's mostly straightforward. Upstream for libgtk3-perl and
libglib-object-introspection-perl is responsive and happy to add any
bits that may be missing.
If critical bits of Debian still depend on libgtk2-perl (d-i?),
please let me know :)
Cheers,
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intrigeri
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Version: 2:1.24993-1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package libgtk2-perl has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/986109
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Blank (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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