[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1027731: aeskulap: Depends on deprecated libglademm2.4

[Simon McVittie]

On Mon, 02 Jan 2023 at 16:12:54 +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:
> aeskulap is one of two packages that depend on libglademm2.4.
> Can we get rid of this dependency to eliminate it from the archive?

It is now the only package that depends on libglademm2.4:

    smcv at coccia ~ % dak rm -R -n libglademm2.4
    ...
    Checking reverse dependencies...
    # Broken Depends:
    aeskulap: aeskulap

    # Broken Build-Depends:
    aeskulap: libglademm-2.4-dev

so porting it from libglade('s C++ bindings) to GtkBuilder would have a
disproportionate impact on the number of unmaintained libraries needed
in the archive.

libglade was superseded by GtkBuilder in GTK 2.12, released in 2007.
Moving from libglade to GtkBuilder would be a good first step towards
replacing GTK 2 with GTK 3.

A porting guide is provided in the GTK 2 documentation:
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/gtk-migrating-GtkBuilder.html

    smcv