Re: gnu-smalltalk was dropped from debian

[Holger Freyther]

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 <bill-auger@peers.community> wrote:
> 
> reasons given for removal:
> * no debian maintainer
> * depends on GTK2
> * inactive upstream
> 
> For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1049451
> 
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> holger
>> 
>> 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
> 
> 
> i could perhaps maintain the debian package
> 
> WDYT?
>