Dear maintainer, As you know, the upstream gLabels maintainer shifted attention to a Qt rewrite several years ago that may not be a drop-in replacement, but that hasn't had any release yet either due to the author's dwindling ability to work on it. On the other hand, it's very feature-complete so maybe this is a good sign in a "no news is good news" kind of way.
Since gLabels 4 is not yet in the archive (but you filed ITP #1003832) and I'm hopeful the leadership situation will be sorted out for Forky, I suggest that if possible, a patch of our own creation be applied as a stopgap measure for Trixie. I think I can figure out how to do it, so please let me know if this would be welcome. If so, I can prepare an upload and ask you to sponsor it. (I'm a DM so I don't have uploading rights for this package.) After it glabels-qt makes it in the archive, I was thinking we could add a NEWS entry to gLabels 3 informing users that they should try migrating when they get the chance. If I don't hear back from you in some reasonable amount of time, I will consider doing an NMU if my mentors/sponsors agree that this is justified. By the way, it appears that gLabels can use the Zint library as a barcode backend, but it hasn't been getting compiled in since this isn't a build dependency. From looking at the source package it looks like this has probably been an unintentional omission, so if you're okay with it I'd like to make that change too. Thanks, John -- 🌐 Homepage https://johnscott.me
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