[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#885376: Bug#885376: python-gtk-vnc: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Tue Dec 26 17:06:21 UTC 2017


Hi,
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 10:35:57AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Package: python-gtk-vnc
> Version: 0.7.1-1
> Severity: important
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
> Tags: sid buster
> 
> pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
> was released in 2011.
> 
> The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
> bindings (and gtk3).
> 
> For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].
> 
> Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
> try to remove pygtk this cycle.
> 
> If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.
> 
> I think the solution here is pretty simple: stop building the python-
> gtk-vnc package. It has one dependency in unstable only:
> openxenmanager. I have asked Ritesh if we can remove openxenmanager
> from unstable.

I'm happy to drop this once all rev-deps are gone. Ritesh can you can
you keep this bug in cc: about the openxenmanager status please?
Cheers,
 -- Guido



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