[tryton-debian] Bug#785566: Bug#785566: Removing pygoocanvas after Stretch release

[Ross Gammon]

On 08/23/2017 12:56 PM, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> * Mathias Behrle: " [tryton-debian] Bug#785566: Bug#785566: Removing
>   pygoocanvas after Stretch release" (Sat, 25 Mar 2017 00:29:32 +0100):
>
> Hi Ross,
>
> [...]
>
>>>> According to the upstream bug report, version 0.3 now supports the
>>>> latest goocanvas (2.0), so it should already be possible to depend on
>>>> gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0 instead of python-pygoocanvas.
>>> As https://git.gnome.org/browse/goocanvas/log/ shows, the patches in
>>> question were merged (2016-12-15), but not yet released.
>>>
>>> The latest release of goocanvas in Debian dates from 11 Jun 2015
>>> [2015-08-22] goocanvas-2.0 2.0.2-2 MIGRATED to testing
>>> So the according changes are not available in Debian.
>>>
>>> Please correct me if I am wrong (you are the maintainer of the package...;).
>>> Otherwise please provide an updated goocanvas package.
>> Sorry about that - the upstream goocalender bug did not mention that the 
>> changes were dependent on changes pushed to goocanvas, so I missed it. I 
>> can see that goocanvas seem to be working towards a 3.0 release. I will 
>> ask for their plans. One option might be to patch things in Debian so 
>> that we have a path for goocalender before the next problem hits the 
>> unmaintained pygoocanvas (in Debian and upstream).
> Did you get any news on this? Otherwise how do you feel about including the
> necessary patches or to package from git to get things done?
>
> Cheers,
> Mathias
>
>
Thanks for the ping. I had not had time to look into it.

I just asked on the upstream list if there is a new release planned
soon. If I don't hear anything, I will try patching a version targeted
at experimental to play with (hopefully in the next week or so).

Cheers,

Ross


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