[Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#760434: Bug#760434: amule: unusable GUI

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Olly,

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> There are two big changes between 2.3.1-11 and 2.3.1+git1a369e47-1 - one
> of them is indeed the switch to wx3.0, but the other is a switch to an
> upstream git snapshot of amule.

the switch to the git snapshot was done because it seemed to include
supports to wx3.0 in the unreleased code.

> I think it would be prudent to rebuild 2.3.1+git1a369e47-1 against wx2.8
> and test if that has similar issues before blaming wx3.0 for these
> problems.  While they could be related to wx3.0, I've not seen such
> issues in any other packages.
>
> Also, upstream's response to the forwarded ticket might be more useful
> if you could show it happens with wx2.8 too.
>
> I tried rebuilding 2.3.1+git1a369e47-1 with wx2.8 myself, but I couldn't
> trigger this behaviour from either the package in sid or my rebuilt
> version (I tried switching between tabs over and over as described
> above), so that's rather inconclusive.  I wasn't connected to any
> networks though, so that's perhaps why it didn't manifest.
>
> I noticed wx upstream has applied a fix for the wxExecuteData issue
> (http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16325) - I can apply that to the
> wxwidgets3.0 package if you'd prefer to try updating 2.3.1-11 to work
> with wx3.0.

Is there any chance you can give us a hand in fixing amule to support
wx3.0? Upstream has only partially ported the code to it, and they are
not actively working on it atm.

IT would be a shame to ship Jessie without amule, but i dont have the
resources to port amule to wx. I can consider getting back to 2.3.1-11
instead of the git snapshot if that makes the effort easier.

Thanks & Regards,
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