Bug#399344: evince: missing GTK (Gnome free) variant

[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt]

forwarded 399344 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328842
thanks

Fabien COUTANT <fabien.coutant at neuf.fr> writes:
> Package: evince
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Ubuntu made a pure GTK variant.  This is very useful for light desktops.
> Please build and package this variant in etch (say as evince-gtk).

>From a release point of view, the Ubuntu way of providing a pure -gtk
version is not an option for Debian. It works by creating a *new source
package* [1] and copy&pasting code from gnome libs to the evince source [2].
Upstream is interested in providing a way to build the package without
needing all gnome dependencies, but won't use the Ubuntu patch for
that. If a less problematic solution is implemented, I would be happy to
provide such a Gtk-only evince package, but this will be too late for
etch.

Marc

Footnotes: 
[1]  Every security issue in evince will need to be fixed twice then!
[2]  That means one needs to keep track where serious gnome problems are
     solved, to adapt the parts in the new evince source.
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