[arch-dev-public] Proposal to remove PyGTK

[Jan de Groot]

Balló György via arch-dev-public schreef op 2020-03-13 10:56:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would propose to remove PyGTK from the official repositories. PyGTK
> was used to create GTK2 applications in python2. It's deprecated and
> unmaintained since 2011 in favor of PyGObject, and does not receive any
> fixes since then.
> 
>  ...
> 
> 
> Any objections?
> 

We can't keep supporting unmaintained software for ages. Pygtk is one of 
those projects that keeps python2 in our repos, so I think it's best to 
update/patch projects to a version that uses PyGobject and remove 
features or drop the remaining packages that still depend on pygtk.

Go for it!