[Freewx-maint] Bug#785079: RM: wxwidgets2.8 -- ROM; Unmaintained upstream; newer release packaged

[Olly Betts]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Please remove wxwidgets2.8 from unstable.  It's unmaintained upstream
(last upstream release was 2.8.12 on 2011-03-28 - over 4 years ago), and
a newer upstream release branch is packaged as wxwidgets3.0.

It was already removed from testing (before the jessie freeze).  There
are a few lingering packages in unstable depending on it, but all have
had bugs filed regarding updating to use wxwidgets3.0 for around a year
now (the last filed was #751241 for amule on 2014-06-11):

| olly at coccia:~$ dak rm -Rn wxwidgets2.8
| [...]
| Checking reverse dependencies...
| # Broken Depends:
| amule: amule
|        amule-daemon
|        amule-utils
|        amule-utils-gui
| codeblocks: codeblocks
|             codeblocks-contrib
|             libcodeblocks0
|             libwxsmithlib0
| codelite: codelite [sparc]
|           codelite-plugins [sparc]
| gspiceui: gspiceui
| plplot: plplot11-driver-wxwidgets [sparc]
| sitplus: sitplus [amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el s390x sparc]
| tribler: tribler
| usbprog: usbprog-gui [hurd-i386]
| 
| # Broken Build-Depends:
| amule: libwxgtk2.8-dev
|        wx2.8-i18n
| codeblocks: libwxgtk2.8-dev
| codelite: libwxgtk2.8-dev
| gpac: libwxgtk2.8-dev
| gspiceui: libwxbase2.8-dev
|           libwxgtk2.8-dev
| matplotlib: python-wxgtk2.8
| plplot: libwxgtk2.8-dev
| sitplus: libwxbase2.8-dev
|          libwxgtk2.8-dev
|          wx2.8-headers
| usbprog: libwxgtk2.8-dev
| 
| Dependency problem found.

A quick analysis - these packages have actually been migrated away from
wxwidgets2.8, but the newer package has failed to build on sparc or
hurd-i386:

    codelite plplot usbprog gpac matplotlib

These genuinely still depend on wxwidgets2.8:

    amule codeblocks gspiceui sitplus tribler

Cheers,
    Olly
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