Bug#967864: Are we able to keep gfm in Debian

[Lionel Debroux]

Hi,

 > Am Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 11:27:18AM +0100 schrieb Andreas B. Mundt:
 > >
 > > Yes, as for tiemu, I filed an issue long ago [1], but there seem to
 > > be no related activities.  As it's the case for tiemu, it's a pity,
 > > but probably better to invest the time elsewhere.
 >
 > Thanks a lot for your quick response and all your work on these tools.
 > Will you file a ROM bug or do you want me to do so?

Upstream here.

The UI part of GFM is pretty small, much smaller than TILP was or TIEmu 
is. It should therefore be easier to port to GTK+Builder, or even 
rewrite using Qt, as I mentioned in 
https://github.com/debrouxl/tilp_and_gfm/issues/72 linked previously.
But in the end, someone has to do the work; it hasn't been me, or anyone
else in the past decade, AFAICT. GFM's functionality is relatively 
narrow, and it probably doesn't have many users. I haven't had to work 
much on it over the 15 years since I became the maintainer of the 
libti*/gfm/tilp stack.
I won't oppose if you want to remove gfm from the set of packages for 
the next release, or the Debian archive.
Anyway, thanks for packaging it and maintaining the package throughout 
the years :)


Best regards,
Lionel Debroux.