Bug#885742: linsmith: GTK+ 3 / GooCanvas port may be available upstream

Graham Inggs ginggs at debian.org
Tue Nov 20 14:23:24 GMT 2018


Hi Jeremy

On 2018/11/19 14:13, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I don't know if you saw this bug and Yavor's response at
> https://bugs.debian.org/885742

Yes, I forwarded this bug to John (upstream) by email on January 4.
I didn't get a reply, but as per the discussion on sourceforge, which 
Yavor linked, John seems to be be aware.

> Are you interested in talking to upstream about getting access to the
> gtk3 port of linsmith?

I did send John a reminder yesterday.

> linsmith is one of the last packages using libgnome in Debian and the
> Debian GNOME would really like to get libgnome removed.

Is there a RFA bug for libgnome?  Perhaps someone would like to adopt it 
in order to prevent the removal of working software from Debian.

Regards
Graham



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