Bug#1110882: desmume: Missing gui frontend, could be built with GTK 3

[Simon McVittie]

Control: retitle -1 desmume: Missing gui frontend, could be built with GTK 3

On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 at 03:13:02 +0200, Anon_0000 wrote:
>I asked in #Debian whether
>the gui still exists in trixie (and perhaps was renamed) and was told that it was
>deliberately removed due to the gui using gtk2
...
>Under the header "Build Executables" you can see that gtk3 is supported if build
>via meson or code::blocks

Adjusting the title to reflect this.

I see that there is a desmume-gtk3 package listed in debian/control, but 
commented out. My guess would be that it was left disabled either 
because it didn't work well enough, or because adding a new desmume-gtk3 
package would require "NEW queue" processing by the archive administrators.

Now that Debian 14 'forky' development has opened, it might be a good 
time to re-enable the GTK GUI, this time using GTK 3.

     smcv