Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/05/msg00627.html
"I took over upstream of quicklist prior to Lenny so that it could have a hope of life after gtk1.2 was removed but this proved more difficult than I expected and although the application builds against current GTK+2, not all of the previous functionality has been restored and the core app still needs some deprecated GTK+2 symbols. (This is a valuable lesson in the results of an over-sentimental approach to bit-rot. It's taught me that we are too soft on orphaned packages and dead upstreams.) If gtk+extra2 cannot be ported to GTK+3, there is no hope of keeping quicklist alive and I refuse to prolong the agony." Also: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/06/msg00884.html gtk+extra2 has attracted some interest from the Ada maintainers to port some widgets but this would not support quicklist. GOffice contains a spreadsheet widget that could be used to replace GtkSheet provided by gtk+extra2 but I don't have time to port quicklist to goffice as well as to GTK+3. I'll be closing down the upstream home of quicklist at SourceForge later too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
