Bug#956785: grits: Should this package be removed?

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -1 RM: libgrits -- ROM; Dead upstream, depends on GTK 2
Control: severity -1 normal

On 4/15/20 11:27 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I noticed libgrits while looking at the list of packages that depend on
> the superseded library GTK 2.
> 
> libgrits appears to be a shared library that is no longer depended on
> by anything in Debian >= buster. It depends on GTK 2, which was superseded
> by GTK 3 in 2011. Its last upstream release appears to have been in 2013.
> 
> Is this library still maintained upstream?

Not according to its git repo:

 http://pileus.org/git/?p=grits

> Is it sufficiently useful
> to justify having it in Debian for use as a dependency of third-party
> software, or should it be removed?

It has 3 votes in popcon, so there appear to be actual users. But such a
low number does not warrant keeping a package that requires obsolete
libraries like GTK 2.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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