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

[shirish शिरीष]

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On 14/10/2019, Michael Vogt <mvo at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 05:58:30AM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
>> Hi,
> 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?
>

That will be good, yes :)

> Cheers,
>  Michael
>

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