Bug#942135: Have either synaptic removed or have it rebuilt with libgtk3-perl in it recommends.

[shirish शिरीष]

Dear all,

Dunno if this is the right place to discuss it or not. Integri asked
hence sharing.

There is also another package synaptic which still uses libgtk2-removal.

$ aptitude why libgtk2-perl
i   task-mate-desktop Recommends synaptic
i A synaptic          Recommends libgtk2-perl (>= 1:1.130)

I looked in the tracker and there doesn't seem to be any movement
about syanptic.

I looked at launchpad.net and saw that the last release they made in 2017.

So there seems to be 2-3 things which can be done.

a. Have synaptic be removed from the debian archive and have
mate-desktop use some other alternative for a GUI package manager.

b. Have synaptic rebuilt using libgtk3-perl and bump up the synaptic version.

3. Remove syanptic and whenever upgrading use  --without-recommends so
synaptic doesn't get pulled in in apt and others.

I would prefer b. and then a. if not possible.

I did see that  on popcon.debian.org synaptic does have a fair pull
although dunno whether it is due to the fact that it gets pulled via
task-mate-desktop or people download it.

https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=synaptic

Looking forward to see whatever solution fo the problem is taken up.
Best of luck to those who are tackling it. Thank you for the work in
removing libgtk2-perl .

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