Hi, Am Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 12:43:19PM -0500 schrieb Theodore Tso: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 11:11:41AM -0400, Frédéric Brière wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 10:29:16AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > As far as I can tell, there is no active upstream anymore, and I am not > > > aware of ongoing efforts to port xzgv to GTK3 or GTK4. > > > > https://github.com/fbriere/xzgv/tree/gtk-3 > > > > Very little testing and code review has been done yet; my goal in making > > this pre-pre-pre-alpha version public right now is to show that there's > > still hope for this little package, and prevent any premature action > > such as a massive bug-closing if it can be avoided. > > Very cool!
Yes, yes, yes. I really applause this. > At the risk of scaring you off, would you at all be > interested in becoming the new upstream for xzgv? This was my first thought as well. > Upstream is at: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/xzgv/ > > And as you can see, it hasn't been updated in 3 years, and I got added > as one of the SourceForge project owners so I could get some of the > bug fixes that got introduced via Debian upstream. So if we want to > keep it around, in order to be sustainable, we probably do need to > find a new official upstream. ... which moves most favourably to a recent Git forge. > I'm willing to help, but (a) I have very little time, and (b) I have > almost no experience with GtK2 or GtK3 programming. (What I have was > trying to fix obvious xzgv bugs. :-) Same here. I have no capacity to do some upstream work. Usually I can provide patches for bugs like this https://bugs.debian.org/1098181 (havn't looked into it yet since I assumed that GTK2 dependency would be a killer anyway) but no real upstream work from my side. > > Also be warned that proper testing might take a while; although I use > > xzgv every day, that version includes several patches that would require > > porting/merging before I would consider switching over. (I'm hesitating > > between submitting these well-tested patches upstream *before* > > finalizing the port, or porting first and submitting these now-rebased > > no-longer-well-tested patches afterward. We'll see.) > > We can reach out to Reuben Thomas and see he might be interested in > waking up and looking at your port, but I suspect it's not all that > likely. +1 Thank you in any case for looking into xzgv. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
