FTBFS with GTK version 2.17

[Peter Clifton]

GTK 2.17 has hidden some private structure members which the GtkSheet widget uses internally. Seems like an API break in GTK, but filing here - since GtkSheet should not have been accessing those members anyway.

[Neil Williams (codehelp)]

See Debian bug 549758 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549758 I see no prospect of this being fixable. gtk+extra2 has outlived it's usefulness and isn't likely to be fixed (or even fixable).

[Neil Williams (codehelp)]

See Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/563069 - RM: gtk+extra2 -- RoQA; FTBFS, dead upstream, orphaned. gtk+extra2 is now due to be removed from Debian. This removal has already led to the removal of gpsim-led and related packages and is likely to lead to the removal of gpsim and ktechlab too.

[Robert Pearce (bdt-rob)]

GTK+extra has NOT "outlived its usefulness", neither is it "dead upstream", and just killing off important parts of GPSim is no solution. GTK+extra 2.1.2 has been released and is compatible with GTK 2.18

[Gaetano Sferra (misio.it-deactivatedaccount)]

As Robert Pearce wrote, GTK+Extra is not dead and GPSim needs it (and I need GPSim GUI as many other users).
GTK+Extra 2.1.2 is stable and fully compatible with GTK 2.18 and GTK+Extra 3 is under development so it's a very good idea re-enter GTK+Extra into universe as soon as possible. GPSim works without GUI only now and for it's users is really tedious!

[Neil Williams (codehelp)]

GTK+Extra is dead - this FTBFS still has not been fixed. GPSim does not need it anymore - the Debian package has dropped the dependency.
GTK+Extra 2.1.2 is broken and incompatible with GTK 2.18, (as evidenced by this bug) and GTK+Extra 2 is also dead. It is a very bad idea to allow GTK+Extra back into Debian or Ubuntu. It took me nearly a year to get rid of the previous version.
There is no version of GTK-Extra3 that is compatible with the upcoming GTK3.0.
I was the Debian maintainer for gtk+extra2, I know the package well, I know the upstream and I know that upstream is dead and has not fixed the FTBFS bug. gtk+extra simply abuses the GTK API and there is no fix for this error.
If the lack of gtk+extra is such a problem, take the advice of the GTK maintainers and upstream and patch GPSim with the GOffice spreadsheet support used by Gnumeric, available in libgoffice.
THAT is the correct solution for GPSim GUI.