[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#885530: gwyddion: Build-Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:24:03PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I just want to mention that gtk 3 was declared long-term stable over a
> year ago with the 3.22 series. Since then, nobody has cared enough
> about gtk2 to do a bugfix release for gtk2. It's really not a good
> idea to stay on gtk2 any more.

That's the reason why it will be droped from Debian step by step since
the Debian GTK team can not provide all the needed support.

> The whole point of an accelerated major release cycle is so that there
> won't be a need to make breaking changes for minor releases.
> 
> Anyway, here's what the GTK developers had to say about their plans:
> https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-stability-promise-in-gtk/
> 
> This is a warning that Debian and Ubuntu may remove gtksourceview2 and
> pygtk soon. Neither of those versions have had any releases since
> 2011.

This will happen with the next Debian release.
 
> If you give up on porting to supported libraries, I encourage you to
> look into the Snap or Flatpak formats as an alternate way of bundling
> and making your package available to Linux users.
> https://snapcraft.io/
> https://flatpak.org/

Snap and Flatpak are well known to me but it is orthogonal to the
distribution of Debian packages.  Debian cares for a whole consistent
system and not only specialised containers.  If gwyddion will not be
ported to a more modern toolkiit it will be droped from Debian and
somebody who is interested in providing containers with gwyddion is free
to do this.
 
Kind regards

     Andreas.

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