On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 05:58:30AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, Hi, > shirish शिरीष: > > Dunno if this is the right place to discuss it or not. Integri asked > > hence sharing. [..] > AFAICT: > > - The synaptic codebase does not use libgtk2-perl directly. > - This Recommends is historically in place so that the user > can benefit from debconf's GNOME frontend. > - debconf's GNOME frontend has been ported to libgtk3-perl 1.5 years > ago (first released in 1.5.66): > https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/commit/0250616b > > Hence, the current "Recommends: libgtk2-perl" has been useless > for a year an a half. With libgtk2-perl being phased out, > this Recommends is now a more serious problem. On top of that, > a suitable dependency on libgtk3-perl is missing. > > Jeremy Bicha filed #891877 a while ago, requesting that Synaptic's > dependencies are updated accordingly. I believe the actions Jeremy > suggested on #891877 will solve the problem shirish is raising here, > improve the life of Synaptic's users, and make it clearer what is the > status of libgtk2-perl in the archive. > > Thoughts? > > (Oh my, so many words for a bug that can be fixed by s/2/3/ in one > single place :)
Thanks for looking into this and sorry that this slipped my radar. I updated the dependency in git and depending on urgency can do an upload very soon - I guess we want one quickly? Cheers, Michael
