[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#933424: sitplus: Please rebuild against wxWidgets GTK 3 package

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

just a short notification about sitplus.  This package is in a very bad
state.  Would need a new upstream version that needs to package a new
library which has cmake issues to build and nobody is really caring
about the package any more.

In short: Its a candidate for removal from Debian and should not block
any transition.

Thanks for your work on the wxgtk packages

      Andreas.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:05:37AM -0400, swt at techie.net wrote:
> Package: sitplus
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Your package appears to be using the wxWidgets GTK 2 implementation.  In 
> Debian, we have had a GTK 3 implementation of wxWidgets for some time.  
> For the bullseye release, the wxWidgets package maintainers plan to 
> remove the GTK 2 version, so we kindly request that you switch your 
> package to use the GTK 3 version.  We have a transition tracker [1] 
> setup to track progress.
> 
> Switching to the GTK 3 version may be as simple as:
> 1) Update your Build-Depends
>    libwxgtk3.0-dev -> libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev
>    libwxgtk-media3.0-dev -> libwxgtk-media3.0-gtk3-dev
> 2) Rebuild
> 3) Test
> 
> If everything seems to be working fine, that's probably all you need to do.
> 
> There are a couple of known issues:
> 1) If your package uses wxGLCanvas, this doesn't currently work when running
> under Wayland.  As a workaround, you can force use of X.  See bug: [2]
> 2) If your package uses graphics contexts, it may encounter a problem with
> coordinate overflow.  See bug: [3]
> 
> If you have any questions, or need assistance with the conversion, please
> contact the wxWidgets team, team+wx at tracker.debian.org.
> 
> [1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/wxwidgets3.0-gtk3.html
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900678
> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906060
> 
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