Bug#996690: clutter-1.0: no new development upstream

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Oct 17 13:47:00 BST 2021


Source: clutter-1.0
Version: 1.26.4+dfsg-3
Severity: important
Tags: bookworm sid upstream wontfix

The upstream README says:

> Clutter is in deep maintenance mode; only micro releases addressing
> bug fixes are planned from now on. Additionally, the API and features
> are frozen.
>
> The planned replacement for Clutter is GTK 4.0.

GTK 4 has its own scene-graph layer, GSK, which is a replacement for
Clutter.

(This does not apply to the vendored/internal fork of cogl and Clutter
in the mutter source package, which is gradually being subsumed into the
mutter codebase.)

    smcv



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