[gtkada] End of life for gtk+extra and GTK+2

[Nicolas Setton]

Hello Ludovic,

> As you all know, development of GTK+ 3.0 is in progress with a  
> target release
> date around March 2010.  GTK+ 3.0 will remove some functions that are
> presently deprecated in GTK+ 2.16.  GtkAda uses gtk+extra2 (in src/ 
> gtkextra),
> which is dead upstream and uses these deprecated symbols heavily.
>
> I would like to give you an advance warning that Debian plans to  
> drop GTK+ 2
> and gtk+extra at some point in the future after GTK+ 3.0 is  
> introduced.  My
> estimate is that this removal might happen in June 2010.  When gtk 
> +extra and
> GTK+ 2 are removed from Debian, it will no longer be possible to  
> build GtkAda,
> or to run GtkAda applications on Debian; this applies both to Debian's
> packages and to the GPS in GNAT GPL Edition, since it is linked  
> dynamically
> against GTK+ 2.

Thanks for the heads-up, this is useful.

Do you have some visibility on the use of gtk+extra in the Debian  
community in general? Or is GtkAda the only package that needs/depends  
on gtk+extra?

Nico