Hi, GTK+ 1.2 has been deprecated upstream for 6 years. There is no security support for it, and no new applications using it have been out for quite a long time as well.
I think it is more than time to remove it from the archive. Of course,
this can only be done after we have dealt with the reverse dependencies.
For them, there are not many solutions:
* Look for alternatives using GTK+ 2.x. For most utilities and
games, they already exist, whether already in the archive or
somewhere else ready to be packaged.
* Port to GTK+ 2.x. Depending on the application, this can be a
trivial or very large task, and it requires a bit of motivation.
* Simply drop the application from the archive.
Here is a first list of packages that could either be removed right now
because they seem to have replacements, or updated with little work. If
there are no objections, I think we should ask for removal of all of
those which don’t have a GTK+ 2 version.
Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
shaketracker
=> we have other sequencers in the archive
swami
=> upstream is currently porting it to GTK+ 2
Marc Dequènes (Duck) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
worlded
=> no upstream news for 4 years, we have better such games in the
archive
Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gcrontab
=> gnome-schedule
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gtimer
=> hamster-applet, gnotime
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
snowflake
=> just a toy
Ernesto Nadir Crespo Avila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xwhois
=> gnome-nettool
Bradley Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gtkmm
Jon Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
e16menuedit
=> we don’t ship E16 anymore
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gato
=> gnome-schedule
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wmclockmon
=> Yet Another WindowMaker Applet
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
powertweak
=> Is that still relevant with modern power management policies?
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xarchon
=> Unmaintained upstream for 5 years, we’re not lacking games
xpuyopuyo
=> flobopuyo, cuyo…
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gtk-engines-lighthouseblue
Patryk Cisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
kadu
=> pidgin
Debian Electronics Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gwave
=> gtkwave
Debian Games Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lmemory
=> gcompris ?
Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
digitaldj
=> prokyon3
Randall Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gradio
=> gnomeradio
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
pinentry
=> just need to disable the GTK+ 1.2 build
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
aria
=> gwget
manedit
=> gmanedit
Devid Filoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
dillo
=> there is a new upstream based on FLTK
Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
predict (U)
Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gnome-libs
gtkfontsel
gtkglarea
imlib
netdude
sqlrelay
stegdetect
=> QA-maintained packages should be removed as soon as they don’t have
remaining rdeps
Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
amoeba
=> just a toy, and we have rss-glx
Wartan Hachaturow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
grpn
=> calcoo
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gpppon
=> gnome-ppp
Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cccd
=> we have so many CD players that I won’t list them
powershell
=> gnome-terminal, xfterm…
Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gqcam
=> cheese…
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xbindkeys-config
=> I think we have quite a number of key->event managers already
Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xoscope
=> extace
Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gbib
=> pybliographer ?
Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
libdv
=> we just need to stop building libdv-bin
Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fvwm (U)
Antonin Kral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gtkguitune
=> lingot
Noèl Köthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mbrowse
=> tkmib + at least 2 online services doing the same
Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gwave (U)
Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gnome-lokkit
=> so many iptables frontends…
Ron Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wxwindows2.4
=> no remaining rdeps
Jacob Luna Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xscorch
=> atanks, scorched3d
Eduardo Marcel Macan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
vertex
=> blender ?
Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
codebreaker
=> gnome-mastermind
OHURA Makoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
tex-guy
=> xgdvi can be replaced by evince and many others
xemacs21
=> maybe we need to wait for emacs23
Paul Mangan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sylpheed-gtk1 (U)
Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
qiv
=> yay, an image viewer
GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lm-batmon
=> yay, a battery monitor
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
guile-gtk-1.2
gwave (U)
Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sylpheed-gtk1
=> sylpheed-claws
Stephen M Moraco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
karpski
=> wireshark
Ryan Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gdk-pixbuf
Francesco Namuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lopster
=> did you know that Napster was shut down?
Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
crossfire-client
=> just need to disable the GTK+ 1.2 build
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
zangband
=> yay, a rogue game
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cheops
=> I don’t think we have a similar tool, but all the functionality
should be covered by combining 2 or 3 of them.
i2e
=> We have more generic and modern dictionary tools
Víctor Pérez Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gfslicer
=> Several tools can build multi-file archives, which boils down to the
same functionality in a more portable way
Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gaby
=> I think we have a number of such tools already
geg
=> lybniz, kmplot
Florian Ragwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wmmaiload
=> Yay, a WindowMaker dockapp
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gbase
=> gcalctool and many others
gentoo
=> yay, a file manager
gman
=> yelp and many others
Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lmemory (U)
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
libjsw
Stefan Schimanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
qtpixmap
Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xdialog
=> zenity
Alain Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gsnes9x
=> visualboyadvance ?
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sylpheed-gtk1 (U)
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gbuffy
=> Yay, a mail notification tool
Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wallp
=> drapes
Wolfgang Sourdeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ghfaxviewer
=> Yay, a picture viewer with a restricted scope
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fvwm
=> Why does it depend on both GTK+ 1.2 and 2.x ?
Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
baycomepp (U)
baycomusb (U)
hf (U)
Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gcvs
=> At least the toolkit is assorted to the VCS. Many IDEs or editors
still have a CVS plugin anyway.
gps
=> gnome-system-monitor and many others
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
libgtkimreg
paul
=> Yay, an imaging library and an image viewer
Marcela Tiznado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gtkgo
=> quarry
Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
directory-administrator
=> gq + several web-based such frontends
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
soundtracker
=> there are a few other trackers, especially ardour, although none of
them uses the MOD/XM format
Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
corewars
=> maybe we should package pmars instead?
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
putty
=> hotwire, a plain terminal…
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mountapp
=> yay, a dockapp
Rafal Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wmshutdown
=> yay, a dockapp
For the following packages, I didn’t find any trivial solution, so this
needs further investigation.
A. Maitland Bottoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
predict
Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mah-jong
Debian Hamradio Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
baycomepp
baycomusb
hf
Manuel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
crank
Yu Guanghui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sulu
Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
pixelize
Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gpsim-led
gpsim-logic
Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
dbmix
ygraph
Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lazarus
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ledcontrol
xt
Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
perspic
Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gtalk
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
baycomepp (U)
baycomusb (U)
hf (U)
Jose M. Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
kmd
Mazen Neifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lazarus (U)
Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
baycomepp (U)
baycomusb (U)
hf (U)
Jaime Robles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
baycomepp (U)
baycomusb (U)
hf (U)
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gtkpool
Ryan Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
psemu-input-padjoy
psemu-sound-peops
psemu-video-x11
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
linpopup
Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
python-visual
Riccardo Stagni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gcx
Lucas Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
pilrc
Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lazarus (U)
python-visual (U)
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