[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1064373: Bug#1064373: squeekboard: Depends on obsolete rust-gtk

[Guido Günther]

Hi Jeremy,
GTK4 lacks API to be make it usable as on screen keyboard (see
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/5628) so I assume
this is unlikely to happen. It could switch to something like
gtk4-layer-shell as work around though.

(I'm not a squeekboard maintainer so this is just my PoV about the
current state of affairs).

Phosh has an alternative OSK (phosh-osk-stub) which would prevent
removal of the whole stack from Debian when rust-gtk goes away.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> Source: squeekboard
> Version: 1.22.0-5
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream trixie sid
> Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/issues/64
> 
> rust-gtk (the old GTK3 bindings) are no longer maintained. Squeekboard
> is the last thing keep rust-gtk in Debian. Please switch to rust-gtk4.
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha
> 
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