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gnome-extra/gtkhtml: take over maintenance
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gtkhtml is deprecated and our Gnome project would like to get rid of it,
unfortunately without it app-text/xiphos has to be built without editor
support (which is the way e.g. Debian, Ubuntu and Red Hat have gone) and
from what I have seen many people are unhappy about the inability to use
the Studypad or make personal annotations. Xiphos is now the only
remaining consumer of this library so I shall maintain it between now
and until upstream have implemented a working alternative (apparently
they began to discuss it back in April), after which it will be
last-rited.

Discussed with and approved by leio on IRC.

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/667914
Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <[email protected]>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
<maintainer type="project">
<email>gnome@gentoo.org</email>
<name>Gentoo GNOME Desktop</name>
<maintainer type="person">
<email>marecki@gentoo.org</email>
<name>Marek Szuba</name>
</maintainer>
<longdescription>
This is the old, and by now very much deprecated, Gtk+ HTML engine. It remains
available in Gentoo because as of late July 2020 <pkg>app-text/xiphos</pkg>
continues to rely on it for editor functionality (the alternative, WebKit-based
editor is not compatible with <pkg>net-libs/webkit-gtk</pkg>:4), however
it will be removed as soon as Xiphos upstream has implemented an alternative
solution.
</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>

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