[Python-apps-team] Bug#947338: cherrytree: should this package be removed?

[Simon McVittie]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 at 20:12:23 -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> i believe there are several issues with cherrytree:
> 
> - python2-only application
> - depends on pygtk, deprecated
> - depends on gtksourceview, deprecated
> - upstream is rewriting it in C++, so there's no hope for a py3k port
> 
> i think it's time to remove it (and eventuall re-introduce it in Debian once the
> C++ port is completed); if i dont hear back within a week with a good reason to
> keep this package in Debian, i'll file for it's removal.

cherrytree is also the last thing keeping orphaned GNOME 2 package
src:pygtksourceview in Debian, so please ask for that package to be
removed (RoQA) at the same time.

Thanks,
    smcv