Bug#1041791: darkradiant: depends on unmaintained gtkmm2.4, and indirectly on GTK 2

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Jul 23 18:06:28 BST 2023


Source: darkradiant
Version: 3.7.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: gtk2 oldlibs
Control: block 967733 by -1
Control: block 967497 by -1

darkradiant Build-Depends on packages from src:gtkmm2.4, a C++ binding
for GTK 2.

GTK 2 was superseded by GTK 3 in 2011 (see
<https://bugs.debian.org/947713>). It has been discontinued by its upstream
developer and no longer receives any upstream maintenance.

>From a quick look at the binary package dependencies and source code,
it looks as though darkradiant is a GTK 3 application already, and the only
reference to gtkmm seems to be in
plugins/dm.objectives/util/TwoColumnTextCombo.h, which is not compiled
when using Debian toolchains, only when using MSVC or Xcode. If that's the
case, then this build-dependency can probably just be dropped.

Thanks,
    smcv



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