On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 12:26:36PM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
I expect we have about a year or so before Forky starts freezing for the Debian 14 release in 2027. I think it would be good to get pidgin 3 into Experimental in the next few months, even if we intend to wait until later in the year to get it into Unstable.
I'm not sure why you would want to do this. It doesn't help your goal to remove GTK2 (since as per your plan, you'd drop pidgin2 and libpurple and their dependencies from testing prior anyway); whilst I'm glad Pidgin3 is being developed, as you know, it's in no way a replacement for Pidgin2 yet, so it doesn't service our users of Pidgin2 to pretend otherwise; and packaging it -- even in experimental -- is against the explicit wishes of upstream.
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