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and subject line Package straw has been removed from Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #549034,
regarding straw: Uses deprecated libgtkhtml2
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Package: straw
Version: 0.27-0.1
Severity: important
User: [email protected]
Usertags: oldlibs libgtkhtml2
straw currently still uses libgtkhtml2, either directly or through
the Python bindings. However, libgtkhtml2 is not really maintained
upstream. After being in maintenance mode since 2005, it has not seen
any new release for 2 years now.
Iâd like to remove libgtkhtml2 packages before the squeeze release.
This can only be done by getting rid of as much as possible of the
reverse dependencies.
For this to happen, the packages have to be migrated to another HTML
rendering engine. There is gtkhtml3 of course, and now there is
webkit, which is superior in terms of features and not too far from
libgtkhtml2 in terms of API.
I suggest that you migrate straw as soon as possible to use webkit
for rendering. For most packages, which use libgtkhtml2 in a simple
way, porting should be trivial - and even more so for those written
in Python.
As for bindings, they donât have any reverse dependencies except
for the Python ones, so they should simply be removed ASAP, or drop
libgtkhtml2 support.
Thanks,
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.''`. Josselin Mouette
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Version: 0.27-0.1+rm
You filled the bug http://bugs.debian.org/549034 in Debian BTS
against the package straw. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/549078. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
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Marco Rodrigues
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