#895517 libglade2-0: deprecated and unmaintained upstream

Package:
libglade2-0
Source:
libglade2
Description:
library to load .glade files at runtime
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2025-08-13 09:35:09 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
Blocked By:
Bug Title
967861

  2

foxtrotgps: depends on deprecated libglade2

normal stable testing unstable 11 months ago

967880

  4

mialmpick: depends on deprecated libglade2

normal testing unstable 11 months ago

967865

  3

ghemical: depends on deprecated libglade2

normal stable unstable 11 months ago

#895517#5
Date:
2018-04-12 09:19:03 UTC
From:
To:
libglade is obsolete, and is no longer maintained by its former upstream
developers. The supported replacement is GtkBuilder, available since
GTK+ 2.12.

Official migration guide:
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/gtk-migrating-GtkBuilder.html

    smcv

#895517#14
Date:
2020-01-03 00:08:26 UTC
From:
To:
This is only the libglade-convert script for converting
pre-2001 (sic) glade files.

I can adopt or NMU (whatever you prefer) libglade2 with the trivial fix
of removing this script.

cu
Adrian

#895517#91
Date:
2020-10-11 15:56:46 UTC
From:
To:
 Adrian, are you still willing to NMU this? Are there any other news?

Best regards,
Tormod (xscreensaver)

#895517#96
Date:
2023-10-21 10:33:12 UTC
From:
To:
Control: severity -1 serious

The last upstream upload was 14.5 years ago and the reverse dependent packages have had 5.5 years to
migrate away from libglade2. There are not many reverse dependencies left, most of which are dead
upstream. Therefore, I am raising the severity of this bug so libglade2 is not released with trixie.

#895517#105
Date:
2023-10-23 05:32:35 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Gert,

Am Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 04:39:05AM +0000 schrieb Debian testing autoremoval watch:

you are upstream and Debian maintainer for this package.  Could you give
some update please, whether you see some chance to solve this issue?  If
not we might consider removing this package.

Kind regards
     Andreas.

#895517#124
Date:
2025-08-13 09:32:11 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package libglade2 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1110865

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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