#1054392 - gtkglext: obsolete and unmaintained upstream - Debian Bug report logs

Debian Bug report logs - #1054392
gtkglext: obsolete and unmaintained upstream

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Package: src:gtkglext; Maintainer for src:gtkglext is Gert Wollny <gewo@debian.org>;

Reported by: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>

Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:00:01 UTC

Severity: serious

Tags: sid, trixie

Found in version gtkglext/1.2.0-11

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Gert Wollny <gewo@debian.org>:
Bug#1054392; Package src:gtkglext. (Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:00:15 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Gert Wollny <gewo@debian.org>. (Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:00:15 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
To: submit <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gtkglext: obsolete and unmaintained upstream
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:57:45 +0200
Source: gtkglext
Severity: serious

gtkglext is obsolete, and is no longer maintained by its former upstream developers. The Debian 
package version was released in 2006 and the package depends on GTK2, which is deprecated as well. 
There is a GTK3 port at https://github.com/tdz/gtkglext which was not touched for a decade and did 
not gain traction because there is a more official OpenGL binding for GTK3.

gtkglext should not be released with trixie even if the GTK2 removal does not happen. As far as I 
can see, there is no very popular software which has not migrated away from it. To those who 
maintain the reverse dependencies: You should check if your package really needs to depend on 
gtkglext and might be able to drop this dependency.

Added tag(s) trixie and sid. Request was from Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 28 Oct 2023 08:54:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Marked as found in versions gtkglext/1.2.0-11. Request was from Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 28 Oct 2023 08:54:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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