gpa status

[Werner Koch]

Hi!

On Sat,  7 Dec 2024 11:56, Andreas Metzler said:

> gpa is due to be removed from Debian/testing since it uses gtk2. gpa git
> has gtk3 conversion, so we could switch to GIT head. However I am not

Actually I still use GPA for testing things, in particular new GPGME
features.  That is because I find it much easier to hack on GPA than on
Kleopatra/Libkleo.  Compiles faster and the code is easier to
understand.

I have not done releases because my co-developers convinced me that it
is better to concentrate on one GUI frontend and they want Kleopatra.
Frankly we are putting a huge amount of work and money into Kleopatra
and it won't be easily to get GPA to the same level of UX.

That said, I don't known whether it makes sense to keep GPA in Debian.
Building from source is easy enough and that is sufficient for having
GPA as a testbench.

If there are enough voices to keep GPA as binary package, I would spend
some time on making a new release.  But in the long run we need an
upstream maintainer for GPA.  I can't promise to do that; there are
anyway too many things I have to care about.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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