Hello Dan, Everyone

Happy Holidays.. I hope all is well with you and all of your families!  I'm on the Debian-Hams list and I saw this roll by and thought I'd bring it up with the group.  Generally speaking, Debian is seemingly getting strict about all packages and their upstreams to be either getting maintenance or they remove them from their packaging.  That's what seems to be happening here.

--David
KI6ZHD


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Subject: Bug#885265: chirp: Depends on unmaintained pygtk
Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 05:15:02 +0000
Resent-From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 00:10:32 -0500
From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
Reply-To: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>, 885265@bugs.debian.org
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Source: chirp
Version: 1:20170714-1
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs pygtk
Tags: sid buster

pygtk is unmaintained upstream. It has not had a release since GNOME 3
was released in 2011.

The way forward is to port your app to use GObject Introspection
bindings.

For more information on GObject Introspection see [1] and [2].

Please try to do this before the Buster release as we're going to
try to remove pygtk this cycle.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha