#1079435 regexxer: please migrate from deprecated gtksourceview3 to gtksourceview4 (or 5)

Package:
regexxer
Source:
regexxer
Description:
visual search and replace tool using Perl Regex
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-10-11 15:23:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1079435#5
Date:
2024-08-23 08:47:42 UTC
From:
To:
gtksourceview3 was superseded in 2018 by gtksourceview4 (a new major
upstream release, but still using GTK 3). There's a porting guide here,
which is mostly "stop using deprecated APIs" plus a few function renames:
https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtksourceview/gtksourceview5/porting-guide-3-to-4.html

gtksourceview3 is unmaintained and hasn't had an upstream release for more
than 5 years, so it would be great if the remaining gtksourceview3
applications can move to gtksourceview4 before trixie.

This particular package uses gtksourceview3 indirectly via the C++ binding
libgtksourceviewmm, which seems to have become unmaintained upstream (see
#1079433). If it is desirable to keep this package in Debian, then someone
with an interest in gtksourceview C++ bindings should take over upstream
maintenance of libgtksourceviewmm and finish releasing a 4.x version.

Thanks,
    smcv
#1079435#18
Date:
2026-01-10 10:10:54 UTC
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#1079435#23
Date:
2026-09-29 07:58:17 UTC
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To:
Please find two patches attached that allow to build with
libgtksourceview-4-dev instead of libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-dev.
#1079435#30
Date:
2026-09-29 10:59:30 UTC
From:
To:
15_gettext-modern-macro.patch is not needed with the changes of 0.10-6.1
included. I had missed that and based my patches on the git tree.

I have pushed everything to git now.
#1079435#35
Date:
2026-10-01 14:29:46 UTC
From:
To:
I am uploading the changes in git as NMU to DELAYED/10.
#1079435#40
Date:
2026-10-11 15:20:54 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
regexxer, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1079435@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> (supplier of updated regexxer package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:28:07 +0200
Source: regexxer
Architecture: source
Version: 0.10-6.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Josenilson Ferreira da Silva <nilsonfsilva@hotmail.com>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Closes: 1079435
Changes:
 regexxer (0.10-6.2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload
   * Port from gtksourceviewmm to the GtkSourceView 4 C API (Closes: #1079435)
   * Drop unnecessary version restriction
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