#1089914 gpa: Keep out of testing

Package:
gpa
Source:
gpa
Description:
GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Submitter:
Andreas Rönnquist
Date:
2025-08-21 09:29:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1089914#5
Date:
2024-12-14 13:38:21 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Filing a bug to keep gpa out of Trixie - gpa isn't well maintained, I have
done the conversion to GTK3, but it has no real maintainer upstream, and the
current version needs more work. There are threading that locks it up (for
example just click on the refresh button in the key list window). I don't find
it in shape for a stable Debian release. If these things changes, I don't
have anything against it going to testing, of course.

Klepatra, which is the QT/KDE equivalent, works fine, and has support and
maintainers upstream. I would recommend to use that if you can live with the
QT interface.

#1089914#12
Date:
2025-03-05 15:39:48 UTC
From:
To:
Here is a pointer to the first message in a discussion with upstream
about why gpa might not belong in debian testing:

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2024-December/035699.html

#1089914#17
Date:
2025-08-21 09:26:44 UTC
From:
To:
Thanks - I have pushed another release to unstable containing a patch
from upstream, which after some testing seems to make it work pretty
good - seems to fix the problems I reported above (I haven't done any
real in-depth testing though).

There's still the fact that it doesn't have a proper upstream
maintainer though, which might be good enough cause to not let it
migrate to testing.

/Andreas Rönnquist
gusnan@debian.org