Package: libgtkhtml2-ruby1.8 Version: 0.19.1-1 Severity: important User: [email protected] Usertags: oldlibs libgtkhtml2
libgtkhtml2-ruby1.8 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. Iâd 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 libgtkhtml2-ruby1.8 as soon as possible to use webkit for rendering. For most packages, which use libgtkhtml2 in a simple way, porting should be trivial - and even more so for those written in Python. As for bindings, they donât have any reverse dependencies except for the Python ones, so they should simply be removed ASAP, or drop libgtkhtml2 support. Thanks, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' âI recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand thingsâ -- Jörg Schilling
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