[Python-apps-team] Bug#885491: ttb: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

[Juhani Numminen]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 10:53:15 -0500 Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at debian.org> wrote:

> pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
> was released in 2011.
> 
> The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
> bindings (and gtk3).
> 
> For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].
> 
> Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
> try to remove pygtk this cycle.

I'm reporting my findings regarding ttb. The original author writes,
at http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/software.html:

> After some changes in the teletext service, ttb stopped working in early 2013;
> since then, I’ve written a replacement called ttx; this program not only
> handles the Dutch Teletekst system, but also supports Belgian, Croatian,
> Finnish, Austrian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Slovenian providers.

The replacement is written in C and seems to be using gtk3:
https://github.com/djcb/ttx


Regards,
Juhani