#1079437 gimagereader: please migrate from deprecated gtksourceview3 to gtksourceview4 (or 5)

Package:
gimagereader
Source:
gimagereader
Description:
Graphical GTK+ front-end to tesseract-ocr
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-10-11 15:55:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1079437#5
Date:
2024-08-23 08:48:55 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gtksourceview3 was superseded in 2018 by gtksourceview4 (a new major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

#1079437#18
Date:
2026-01-10 10:10:54 UTC
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#1079437#23
Date:
2026-09-28 19:50:25 UTC
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I have filed an upstream PR that can be used to fix this.
#1079437#30
Date:
2026-09-29 08:25:51 UTC
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#1079437#35
Date:
2026-10-01 14:37:02 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

Bug #1079437 in gimagereader reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gimagereader/-/commit/b7ec22cff75b5e9470ab357f269ff122411a2d2d

(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1079437

#1079437#42
Date:
2026-10-01 14:57:05 UTC
From:
To:
I am uploading the changes in git as NMU to DELAYED/10.
#1079437#47
Date:
2026-10-11 15:52:50 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gimagereader, 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 1079437@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 gimagereader 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 16:36:19 +0200
Source: gimagereader
Architecture: source
Version: 3.4.3-2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Philip Rinn <rinni@debian.org>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Closes: 1079437
Changes:
 gimagereader (3.4.3-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload
   * Forwarded libxml++5 patch
   * Migrate to gtksourceview4 (Closes: #1079437)
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