Bug#967353: freeciv: depends on deprecated GTK 2

[Stephen Kitt]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:43:01 +0200, Tobias Frost <tobi at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 08:33:12PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> > 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    
> > > 
> > > So I guess the gtk2 client should not be released with bookworm…
> > > 
> > > Any thoughts (question directed to the games team)?  
> > 
> > It’s gone entirely in 3.0.3, isn’t it? So if you’re upgrading to that
> > release, it seems the freeciv-gtk package should be dropped (or rather,
> > turned into a transitional package pulling freeciv-gtk3).  
> 
> The client is still there in 3.0.3 (but needs to be enabled manually,
> at least it builds; not yet there to see if it works…)

Ah yes, I started with the main branch and didn’t check 3.0.3 thoroughly
enough.

However given that GTK 2 is obsolete in general, and the existence of other
(maintained) Freeciv clients, I don’t think it’s all useful to keep the GTK 2
client for Bookworm.

Regards,

Stephen
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