[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#967447: gpa: depends on deprecated GTK 2

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2024-12-06 Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists at gusnan.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 19:15:37 +0100,
> Andreas Metzler<ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:
>>On 2024-12-06 Bastian Germann <bage at debian.org> wrote:
[...]
>>> Upstream has imported the gtk3 port in git. I have just uploaded a NMU
>>> to DELAYED/10 with a snapshot of the current HEAD. The changes are in
>>> Vcs-Git.

>> I will ask upstream about a new upstream release.

>> [*Not* to be read as: Please delete or delay NMU]

> To my knowledge upstream is looking for a new upstream maintainer for
> GPA - I don't really want to become upstream, and I believe no-one else
> has stepped up, so that is why gpa is in the state it is in.

Hello Andreas,

Werner Koch has already replied to my enquiry in https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2024-December/035702.html
| Actually I still use GPA for testing things, in particular new GPGME
| features.  That is because I find it much easier to hack on GPA than on
| Kleopatra/Libkleo.  Compiles faster and the code is easier to
| understand.
| 
| I have not done releases because my co-developers convinced me that it
| is better to concentrate on one GUI frontend and they want Kleopatra.
| Frankly we are putting a huge amount of work and money into Kleopatra
| and it won't be easily to get GPA to the same level of UX.
| 
| That said, I don't known whether it makes sense to keep GPA in Debian.
| Building from source is easy enough and that is sufficient for having
| GPA as a testbench.
| 
| If there are enough voices to keep GPA as binary package, I would spend
| some time on making a new release.  But in the long run we need an
| upstream maintainer for GPA.  I can't promise to do that; there are
| anyway too many things I have to care about.

Which confirms what you said. Given that is not dead upstream, Werner
still caring somehow about it, I will not go for removal ATM.

@Bastian: I do not think there is any point in waiting - How about
reschuling the NMU to 0-day?

cu Andreas
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