Reply in-line :- On 14/10/2019, Michael Vogt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 05:58:30AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: >> Hi, > 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? > That will be good, yes :) > Cheers, > Michael > -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com E493 D466 6D67 59F5 1FD0 930F 870E 9A5B 5869 609C
