Bug#968283: closed by Tobias Frost (Re: Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2)

2020-11-19 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the jack package: #968283: jack: Freedb has closed. Use gnudb instead. It has been closed by Tobias Frost . If jack has been removed from Debian, is

Bug#968283: Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

2020-11-15 Thread Tobias Frost
As jack has been removed from Debian in March already, should this bug be closed?

Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

2020-10-27 Thread Pál Tamás Ács
I just tried to explain the reasons why GTK2 is going to stay around for a while and why it's very important to accept that. I'm sorry if I had too much wide-ranged or off-topic statements. It wasn't my intention to derail any technical discussion. On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:10 PM Sean Whitton

Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

2020-10-26 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 26 Oct 2020 at 08:59PM +01, Pál Tamás Ács wrote: >> >> Can you please take your conspiracy theories, mis-information and >> top-posting elsewhere, like /dev/null? Thanks. > > > I'm not sure where exactly my statements were conspiracy theories or > mis-information. Or you just don't

Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

2020-10-26 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 25 Oct 2020 at 11:43AM GMT, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 09:11:23 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Hello GNOME team, > > Note that pkg-gnome-maintainers receives bugmail etc. for the entire > GNOME suite, and most (all?) GNOME maintainers aren't subscribed to that >

Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

2020-10-26 Thread Pál Tamás Ács
> > Can you please take your conspiracy theories, mis-information and > top-posting elsewhere, like /dev/null? Thanks. I'm not sure where exactly my statements were conspiracy theories or mis-information. Or you just don't like my opinion because it's kind of different from the mainstream that

Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

2020-10-25 Thread Michael Gratton
On 26 October 2020 01:06:59 Pál Tamás Ács wrote: Technically, Gtk2 and Gtk3 are two different toolkits with a similar name. It's a completely different thing that Red Hat is trying to make us believe that GTK3 is an improved successor of GTK2. It isn't. It never has been. GTK3 has been very

Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

2020-10-25 Thread Pál Tamás Ács
Technically, Gtk2 and Gtk3 are two different toolkits with a similar name. It's a completely different thing that Red Hat is trying to make us believe that GTK3 is an improved successor of GTK2. It isn't. It never has been. GTK3 has been very much unstable, full of API breaks and annoyances from

Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

2020-10-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 09:11:23 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello GNOME team, Note that pkg-gnome-maintainers receives bugmail etc. for the entire GNOME suite, and most (all?) GNOME maintainers aren't subscribed to that particular fire hose (we get bug mail for packages of interest, or for all

Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

2020-10-10 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello GNOME team, The FTP Team are starting to see removal requests for packages which use GTK2 and are unlikely to be ported to GTK3, but are not RC-buggy. Examples are #968204 and #968283. I read your bug report against one of those two packages and smcv writes GTK 2 is used by some