Bug#1086838: gtk4: Remove udebs for Trixie?

[Simon McVittie]

On Wed, 06 Nov 2024 at 08:52:51 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> gtk4 produces udebs in anticipation that they will eventually be
> needed by the Debian installer. However, the installer still uses gtk2
> and I don't believe anyone is actively working on porting it to gtk3
> or gtk4 now. See https://bugs.debian.org/1070706 which points out that
> the gtk4 udeb is unusable currently.

I have been trying to do some of the groundwork towards making the
installer use GTK 3, but the GTK 3 udebs are also not currently usable
(they need a couple more X11 libraries to add udebs).

However, I don't think that work is likely to land before trixie unless
the trixie freeze is significantly later than what we had been assuming.

> Therefore, to avoid needing special treatment from the Debian Release
> team, I suggest that we could stop building libgtk-4-1-udeb. Maybe we
> could resume building it early in the forky release cycle if that
> helps?

We would have to go back through NEW for this, which could lead to annoying
delays later.

> - If the Release Team can easily exclude libgtk-4-1-udeb from their
> *udeb release block, then we probably don't need to do any action here
> at all now

This is the route I'd prefer, if it's something that the release team is
able to arrange.

    smcv