Bug#967387: Bug#967864: Are we able to keep gfm in Debian

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Lionel,

Am Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 01:11:12PM +0100 schrieb Lionel Debroux:
> > 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.

Thanks a lot for the quick response.
 
> 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 :)

I guess it makes sense to remove the Debian package for now.  You are
kindly invited to ping the Debian Science list in case you might have
found some time to convert the code to some more modern toolkit.

Kind regards
   Andreas. 

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