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

-------- Forwarded Message -------- 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 Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Debian Hamradio Maintainers debian-hams@lists.debian.org 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 To: submit submit@bugs.debian.org

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