Bug#967353: freeciv: depends on deprecated GTK 2

[Marko Lindqvist]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 21:45, Tobias Frost <tobi at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 08:33:12PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:06:12 +0200, Tobias Frost <tobi at debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:38:27 +0100 smcv at debian.org wrote:
> > > > Source: freeciv
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > > User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > > > Usertags: gtk2 oldlibs
> > > > Control: block 947713 by -1
> > > >
> > > > This package has Build-Depends on GTK 2 (libgtk2.0-dev), or produces
> > > > binary packages with a Depends on GTK 2.
> > >
> > > (...)
> > >
> > > Upstream says in 3.0.3 (doc/README.packaging):
> > > > * Gtk2-client is no longer considered maintained client

 Read that as: "We don't promise anything."

 In practice it's better than ever (some bug fixes still trivially
ported from other gtk-clients). Just if there's, e.g., going to be a
build breakage with newer compilers or other tools, upstream is not
going to waste time on fixing those. That said, it does compile with
both current gcc-snapshot and clang-15 of Debian Sid.


 - ML