Bonjour Sébastien,

This new auto-removal warning triggered by gtksourceview2 was expected. It
was the reason why I opened this bug (953367). The removal date was
initially 2020-03-15, and it was postponed a few times, now it is
2020-05-09.

geneweb does not depend directly on gtksourceview2 (syntax highlighting
widget), but through lablgtk2 (OCaml bindings for GTK+ version 2). The
dependency chain is :
geneweb > geneweb-gui > lablgtk2 > gtksourceview2

To my best understanding, geneweb-gui is not using gtksourceview2, but only
the other components of lablgtk2.

The maintainer of lablgtk2 have recently (2020-04-03) proposed a solution
to fix lablgtk2 : to provide it without gtksourceview2.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885677#95

Therefore, I propose to wait for this solution to lablgtk2, but I'm ready
to drop geneweb-gui if there is another problem with lablgtk2.

Cordialement,


Guillaume

Le sam. 11 avr. 2020 à 05:45, Sébastien Villemot <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> Dear Guillaume,
>
> geneweb has migrated back to testing, however…
>
> Le mercredi 08 avril 2020 à 08:10 -0400, Guillaume Brochu a écrit :
> > As I can see, lablgtk2 should be repaired soon:
> >     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885677#95
> >
> > My understanding is that geneweb-gui does not depend on the
> > problematic component (gtksourceview2) of lablgtk2.
>
> According to #911166, the whole gtksourceview2 package is going to be
> removed from Debian, and this is transitively going to remove lablgtk2
> and geneweb from testing on 2020-05-09 (see
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/geneweb)
>
> My understanding is therefore that, to prevent another removal from
> testing, the geneweb-gui package must either be dropped or ported to
> GTK 3.
>
> Best,
>
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