Currently wxpython3.0 is nominally maintained by the freewx team. There are 6 members of the freewx team on alioth, but only Gianfranco Costamagna and myself have been active at all recently, and pretty much all the work on wxpython3.0 has fallen to me. I have no direct interest in wxpython, I don't regularly code in python, and I have a lot of other commitments. So I really lack all of the time, motivation and skills to do a good job.
If upstream were responsive this might not be a problem, but they seem focussed on "wxpython phoenix" (which AFAICT still isn't ready for primetime), and bug reports against the stable wxpython often get no useful response, e.g.: http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16608 http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16451 http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/15585 http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/14367 With wx 2.8, the wxpython and the C++ wxwidgets library were built out of a single wxwidgets2.8 source package (which was actually the wxpython upstream source tarball, which contained an embedded copy of wxwidgets). With 3.0, we now have separate source packages, so there's no longer a need for the same person or team to maintain both. Really wxpython3.0 deserves a better Debian maintainer - either within the freewx team, or by having it adopted by another person or team. I'm asking on the freewx-maint and debian-python lists first, but if there are no takers I'll file an RFA. Cheers, Olly
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