Re: gnu-smalltalk was dropped from debian

Holger Freyther <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Oct 2023 17:24:06 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.gnu.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for the heads up. Do we have any volunteers to re-activate the =
development of GNU Smalltalk, move towards GTK4?

> On 27. Sep 2023, at 13:21, bill-auger <[email protected]> =
wrote:
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> reasons given for removal:
> * no debian maintainer
> * depends on GTK2
> * inactive upstream
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> For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1049451
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> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:18:51 +0800 Holger wrote:
>> Indeed. We should promote 3.2.91 to 3.3.0 and cope with VisualGST =
being slightly broken (it's based on GTK+ 2.0 anyway). Let me aim to do =
this before the end of the year.
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>> holger
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>> On 14. Nov 2021, at 09:11, bill-auger wrote:
>>> the team should consider
>>> promoting 3.2.91 to a release, before GNU smalltalk gets removed
>>> from debian, for example - arch has been packaging 3.2.91 for years
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> i could perhaps maintain the debian package
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> WDYT?
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