[Debichem-devel] Bug#749861: Bug#749861: qutemol: Please update to use wxwidgets3.0

[Olly Betts]

severity 749861 important
thanks

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:13:36PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:01:30PM +1200, Olly Betts wrote:
> > We're aiming to migrate the archive to using wxwidgets3.0 instead of
> > wxwidgets2.8, and intend to drop wxwidgets2.8 before jessie is released.
> 
> OK, but can you explain why it blocks an ongoing transition?

https://release.debian.org/transitions/ lists wxwidgets3.0 as such.

But I've lowered the severity for now - the combination of RC severity
and the autoremoval from testing of packages with RC bugs makes
"serious" rather more brutal than I had intended for newly filed bugs
without either a patch or newer upstream version with wx3 support.

> I would assume the work-flow would be to file wishlist/normal bugs for
> a migration to wxwidgets3.0 first, and then later on upgrade them to
> serious if 2.8 really cannot be supported for jessie.

I managed this for a lot of packages, but I'm the only currently active
member of the wxwidgets maintainers team, and there's a lot of packages
for one person to process.

Which is also part of the reason why we can't sanely keep 2.8 for jessie
- upstream have moved on to 3.x and I don't have the time to take over
upstream's role for 2.8 as well as maintain 2.8 and 3.0 for Debian.

> Thanks for the report.  You are right that qutemol is dead upstream, so
> we need somebody from Debian to port it to 3.0.  I don't have any
> WXWidgets experience, so patches are welcome.

If there's nobody interested in qutemol who can take over upstream
maintenance, perhaps removal should be considered?

Cheers,
    Olly