Debian has had two versions of the FLTK GUI toolkit with nearly identical APIs for over nine years: 1.1 and 1.3. The only breaking change in the 1.3 series is that it expects text to be in UTF-8 rather than legacy national encodings, which Debian has generally deprecated for quite some time; meanwhile, 1.1 is thoroughly dead upstream.
As such, I would like to try to drop 1.1, or at least its development package, in time for bullseye. (I know it's relatively late in the cycle, but the necessary changes should generally be minimal.) I see 19 source packages that still make use of 1.1, as listed at the end of this message. I can and will take care of packages belonging to the QA Group (epm and htmldoc) and Science Team (imview) myself, but propose to file bugs against the remaining 16, via a template along the lines of Subject: #PACKAGE#: Please migrate to FLTK 1.3 #PACKAGE# still builds against FLTK 1.1, for which it is long past time for Debian to drop support. Please migrate to 1.3, which is generally as simple as adjusting #PACKAGE#'s build dependencies and ensuring that it uses UTF-8 rather than a legacy text encoding. (That said, please also make sure that you're linking FLTK dynamically, e.g. via fltk-config --ldflags rather than fltk-config --ilbs.) For more details, please see the debian-devel thread starting at https://lists.debian.org/... Thanks! Please let me know if you have any concerns, or if I should additionally file a bug or two against lintian to catch the use of FLTK 1.1 and/or static FLTK linkage. (I haven't swept for the latter among packages using 1.3, but I do see that several packages build-depend on 1.1 but have no corresponding runtime dependencies.) Also, please keep me copied on replies. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian ACE maintainers <team+...@tracker.debian.org> ace Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> alsa-tools Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> golang-github-yosssi-ace Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multime...@lists.debian.org> csound Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> horgand paulstretch Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> htmldoc Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> imview Debichem Team <debichem-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> drawxtl Marcelo Soares Mota <motasmarc...@gmail.com> posterazor Paul Brossier <p...@debian.org> aconnectgui alsamixergui Peter Pentchev <r...@debian.org> wmanager Thierry Randrianiriana <randrianiri...@gmail.com> xdiskusage Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <ti...@debian.org> rakarrack -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?a...@monk.mit.edu
