On 2024-12-07 Werner Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 11:56, Andreas Metzler said:
> > gpa is due to be removed from Debian/testing since it uses gtk2. gpa git > > has gtk3 conversion, so we could switch to GIT head. However I am not > Actually I still use GPA for testing things, in particular new GPGME > features. That is because I find it much easier to hack on GPA than on > Kleopatra/Libkleo. Compiles faster and the code is easier to > understand. > I have not done releases because my co-developers convinced me that it > is better to concentrate on one GUI frontend and they want Kleopatra. > Frankly we are putting a huge amount of work and money into Kleopatra > and it won't be easily to get GPA to the same level of UX. > That said, I don't known whether it makes sense to keep GPA in Debian. > Building from source is easy enough and that is sufficient for having > GPA as a testbench. > If there are enough voices to keep GPA as binary package, I would spend > some time on making a new release. But in the long run we need an > upstream maintainer for GPA. I can't promise to do that; there are > anyway too many things I have to care about. Hello Werner, thank you for your speedy reply. That is quite helpful. For the time being I going to vote for keeping gpa in Debian, using GIT head. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
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