Hi, shirish शिरीष: > Dunno if this is the right place to discuss it or not. Integri asked > hence sharing.
Thanks for caring! > There is also another package synaptic which still uses libgtk2-removal. > $ aptitude why libgtk2-perl > i task-mate-desktop Recommends synaptic > i A synaptic Recommends libgtk2-perl (>= 1:1.130) I don't particularly know Synaptic nor debconf so take all this with a grain of salt: I might have misunderstood something fundamental. 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 :) Cheers, -- intrigeri
