Bug#751362: springlobby: Please update to wxwidgets3.0

[Markus Koschany]

On 12.06.2014 07:23, Olly Betts wrote:
[...]

> We're aiming to migrate the archive to using wxwidgets3.0 instead of
> wxwidgets2.8, and intend to drop wxwidgets2.8 before jessie is released.

Hi Olly,

back then I was not sure if the wxwidgets3.0 transition is really going
to happen before the freeze.

> I had springlobby down on the list of packages that were already using
> wxwidgets3.0, but I just spotted that in the latest upload you've switched
> springlobby from back to wxwidgets2.8.  That's working against the
> on-going wxwidgets3.0 transition:
> 
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/wxwidgets3.0.html
> 
> What were the problems that using wxwidgets3.0 was causing?  I don't see
> anything about this in the BTS, and the changelog entry doesn't mention
> anything specific.


The main reason for switching back is that springlobby is buggy with
wxwidgets3.0 and upstream states that:

"wx 3.0 is currently badly supported / not tested. if possible use wx
2.8" [1]

You can easily verify this by compiling springlobby with wxwidgets3.0.
Then start the application and go to Edit->Preferences. The result is an
assertion which I had reported upstream.

https://github.com/springlobby/springlobby/issues/235

There are more issues

https://github.com/springlobby/springlobby/issues/234


> At this point in the transition (and in the jessie release cycle), I'd
> definitely recommend that packages stick with wxwidgets3.0 and we work
> on resolving any issues.  That way there's a good chance to actually
> resolve them before the jessie freeze.

I am not sure if we can do a better job than upstream here but I am open
for any suggestions.

Regards,

Markus


[1] https://github.com/springlobby/springlobby/issues/235

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