Hello, I'm Gary Kramlich the lead developer of Pidgin. While 3.0 does work, I think putting it in experimental right now is a bit premature. It's been in development for the better part of a decade (if it hasn't already been a decade). There is a lot of stuff that's in bad shape and is not compatible with Pidgin 2 in any way shape or form (minus the config directory). That said it requires a currently unpackage library called gplugin (written by me) that does have packaging written but is not in any distributions at this time. It does however follow a fairly recent version of the Debian standards.
I am working on getting all of this stuff into so packagecloud.io repositories for people to try, but right now having more people dealing with dependency changes and stuff right now doesn't seem like a good use of anyone's time. On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > Package: pidgin > Version: 2.12.0-1+b1 > Severity: wishlist > > Upstream has a new 3.0 version in development, which includes GTK+ 3.0 > support. Please consider packaging it in experimental. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: buster/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 > (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages pidgin depends on: > ii libatk1.0-0 2.26.1-1 > ii libc6 2.25-2 > ii libcairo2 1.15.8-2 > ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.2-1 > ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.108-3 > ii libfontconfig1 2.12.6-0.1 > ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-0.1 > ii libgadu3 1:1.12.2-2 > ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-1 > ii libglib2.0-0 2.54.2-1 > ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.12.3-1 > ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-3 > ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1.1 > ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2 > ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.13-2 > ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.13-2 > ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.40.13-2 > ii libpurple0 2.12.0-1+b1 > ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b3 > ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 > ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1+b2 > ii perl-base [perlapi-5.26.0] 5.26.1-3 > ii pidgin-data 2.12.0-1 > > Versions of packages pidgin recommends: > ii gstreamer1.0-alsa 1.12.3-1 > ii gstreamer1.0-libav 1.12.3-1 > ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.12.3-1 > ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.12.3-1 > ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio 1.12.3-1 > > Versions of packages pidgin suggests: > ii libsqlite3-0 3.21.0-1 > > -- no debconf information > > -- Thanks, -- Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com>
