Bug#942135: Bug#891877: Have either synaptic removed or have it rebuilt with libgtk3-perl in it recommends.

[Michael Vogt]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 05:58:30AM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,

> shirish शिरीष:
> > Dunno if this is the right place to discuss it or not. Integri asked
> > hence sharing.
[..]
> AFAICT:
> 
>  - The synaptic codebase does not use libgtk2-perl directly.
>  - This Recommends is historically in place so that the user
>    can benefit from debconf's GNOME frontend.
>  - debconf's GNOME frontend has been ported to libgtk3-perl 1.5 years
>    ago (first released in 1.5.66):
>    https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/commit/0250616b
> 
> Hence, the current "Recommends: libgtk2-perl" has been useless
> for a year an a half. With libgtk2-perl being phased out,
> this Recommends is now a more serious problem. On top of that,
> a suitable dependency on libgtk3-perl is missing.
> 
> Jeremy Bicha filed #891877 a while ago, requesting that Synaptic's
> dependencies are updated accordingly. I believe the actions Jeremy
> suggested on #891877 will solve the problem shirish is raising here,
> improve the life of Synaptic's users, and make it clearer what is the
> status of libgtk2-perl in the archive.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> (Oh my, so many words for a bug that can be fixed by s/2/3/ in one
> single place :)

Thanks for looking into this and sorry that this slipped my radar. I
updated the dependency in git and depending on urgency can do an
upload very soon - I guess we want one quickly?

Cheers,
 Michael