Bug#839867: pygtk: FTBFS on sparc64 - bus error in testsuite

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello James Clarke.

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 08:28:44PM +0100, James Clarke wrote:
> Control: tags -1 patch
[...]
> Is upstream still accepting patches? https://git.gnome.org/browse/pygtk/
> doesn't show any activity since 2013...

Thanks for the patch.

I'm pretty sure pygtk is deprecated in favour of gobject-introspection
based bindings since many years. Unfortunately there are still many
(zombie?) reverse dependencies left in stretch/sid.

I don't think pkg-gnome has much interest in this package any more
as our rdeps (which aren't themselves deprecated) should already be
ported over. The package should probably be orphaned assuming removal
of all rdeps is not doable.

> 
> Regards,
> James
> 
> PS: If you're touching the packaging, the unpatch rule in d/rules is
>     broken, since it deletes .pc, but doesn't actually unpatch, so once
>     clean is run (which depends on unpatch), quilt is broken. Either
>     unpatch should actually quilt pop -a (but then clean shouldn't
>     depend on it, since that's wrong for a 3.0 (quilt) package), or it
>     shouldn't delete .pc, but the current behaviour is incredibly
>     frustrating to work with.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson