[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#886835: Should sitplus package be droped from Debian (Was: Bug#886835: sitplus fails to start because GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported)

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 04:47:48PM +0100, Luis Rivas wrote:
> On 10 January 2018 at 13:46, Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> wrote:
> > just a note for sitplus:  This package definitely needs more love.
> > Upstream has released a new version a long time ago but it has split a
> > separate library which needs to be packaged separately.
> >
> > I'm personally lacking the time resources to care for this package.
> >
> > Any volunteer or is it possibly better to drop the package at all
> > if it is not running?
> 
> I'm afraid I don't have the time for taking care of this package. So,
> unless someone else volunteers, probably it's for the better to drop
> the package for now.

I suspect this particular issue would be fixed by updating the wxWidgets
build-dependency from libwxgtk3.0-dev to libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev (the
former uses GTK+ 2.x, the latter GTK+ 3.x), though if nobody's able to
look after the package properly, perhaps it's better to drop it.

Cheers,
    Olly