Package: osmo Version: 0.2.10-1 Severity: important User: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: oldlibs libgtkhtml2
osmo 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. I’d 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 osmo as soon as possible to use webkit for rendering. For most packages, which use libgtkhtml2 in a simple way, porting should be trivial. I’d like to add a specific note. When upstream *starts* to use something like gtkhtml2 in 2010, that poses serious questions as to their ability to make development choices. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `- […] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
