gpa status

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2024-12-07 Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> 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.


Hello Werner,

thank you for your speedy reply. That is quite helpful. For the time
being I going to vote for keeping gpa in Debian, using GIT head.

cu Andreas
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