This page is for tracking transitioning packages from wxwidgets2.8 to wxwidgets3.0.

wxPython 3.0.0.0 was released more recently, and hasn't yet been packaged (ITP is 734799). So currently the focus is on C++ packages.

There are packages of wxWidgets 3.0.0 in testing. The package you probably want to build-depend on is libwxgtk3.0-dev (or if you only use the 'wxbase' library, libwxbase3.0-dev). There's no need to also build-depend on wx3.0-headers, and there's no need to build-depend on both libwxgtk3.0-dev and libwxbase3.0-dev.

Hopefully we can remove wxwidgets2.8 before the jessie freeze.

Some important notes:

List of user-tagged bugs

Popcon graph showing installations of wx C++ and Python runtimes for wx 2.6, 2.8 and 3.0:

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-png.php?packages=libwxgtk2.6-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 libwxgtk3.0-0 python-wxgtk2.6 python-wxgtk2.8&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&date_fmt=%Y-%m&beenhere=1

Macports are also working on porting their packages to wx 3.0, so they may have useful patches (or check out from SVN).

If you've any useful information, please add it.

Table showing progress:

Package

Upstream

Debian

BTS

Notes

Debian maintainer

aegisub

(./)

(./)

691384

NEW processing because of new -dbg pkg

Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org>

erlang

(./)

(./)

Upstream cares about 3.0, but there are a few minor bugs, and one segfault. The segfault is fixed. The package is in new because of introducing erlang-dbg package

Sergei Golovan <sgolovan>

survex

(./)

(./)

printing issues

Olly Betts <olly>

sffview

(./)

(./)

upgrading fixed 645159

Olly Betts <olly>

golly

(./)

(./)

729677

NMUed at maintainer's request

NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>

fityk

(./)

(./)

703150

builds OK

Carlo Segre <segre>

xchm

(./)

(./)

740991

builds with tiny patch and seems to work; macports built it

Kartik Mistry <kartik>

0ad

(./)

(./)

builds OK

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

mkvtoolnix

(./)

(./)

Christian Marillat <marillat>

saga

(./)

(./)

New version requires 3.0. New package already in ubuntu ppa

Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

wxmaxima

(./)

(./)

741569

macports built it; seems to work when built with NDEBUG

Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

mathgl

(./)

(./)

741710

builds OK, seems hard to test

Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

dolphin-emu

(./)

{X}

535073

ITP

Brandon <winterknight@email.com>

libwx-glcanvas-perl

(./)

{X}

728670

ITP

Nicolas Dandrimont <olasd>

gnuplot

(./)

{X}

741072

builds ok, seems to work ok; macports built it

Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

usbprog

(./)

{X}

741391

macports built it; needs trivial patch

Uwe Hermann <uwe>

kicad

(./)

{X}

741440

builds with small patch

Georges Khaznadar <georgesk>

ebook2cwgui

(./)

{X}

741490

Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@lists.debian.org>

poedit

(./)

{X}

741580

New upstream release supports wx3.0 but requires luceneplusplus which isn't packaged yet; macports built it

Andreas Rönnquist <gusnan@gusnan.se> working on it with Pedro Ribeiro's permission

wxsqlite3

(./)

{X}

741730

Has 3 reverse deps

Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs>

xaralx

?

{X}

non-free; inactive upstream; maintainer OK with removal

Joachim Breitner <nomeata>

vavoom

(./)

{X}

740989

Needs trivial patch to build with wx3; unpatched package fails to work if rebuilt; removal proposed

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

graphthing

{X}

{X}

Dead upstream; fails build due to wx API changes; maintainer says to remove

Cyril Brulebois <kibi>

bochs

{X}

{X}

Version from experimental fails to build

Orphaned

rapidsvn

{X}

{X}

last upstream release 4.5 years ago; configure fails with configure: error: wxWidgets >= 2.4.2 required, found version 3.0.0; fixing that it fails to compile

Orphaned

pgagent

(./)

{X}

wxbase only; build system needs minor tweaks

Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda>

pgadmin3

{X}

{X}

build fails; macports built it

Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda>

therion

{X}

{X}

patch sent upstream; loch still segfaults on some files when specified on the command line (but not under gdb or valgrind)

Wookey <wookey>

libwx-perl

(./)

{X}

builds with 2.9.4, apparently 2.9.5 and 3.0.0 fail

Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

libalien-wxwidgets-perl

(./)

{X}

Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

libwx-scintilla-perl

?

{X}

possibly no longer relevant as wx 3.0.0 should have a recent scintilla

Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

codeblocks

?

{X}

David Paleino <dapal>

gspiceui

?

{X}

not in testing; upstream homepage 404

Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <gudjon@gudjon.org>

plplot

?

{X}

not in testing; macports built it

Andrew Ross <andrewross@users.sourceforge.net>

extrema

{X}

{X}

fails to build (wxString concatenation issues)

Christine Spang <christine>

espeakedit

(./)

{X}

patches sent upstream; assertion dialog on startup remains

Debian Accessibility Team <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>

wxhexeditor

{X}

{X}

Builds, but many assertion failed dialogs when run

Andrew Shadura <andrewsh>

jugglemaster

{X}

{X}

Fails to build; Inactive upstream; already carrying compat patches for wx 2.6 + 2.8

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

openyahtzee

{X}

{X}

build fails

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

scorched3d

{X}

{X}

libglew1.9 transition; Build fails

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

multiget

{X}

{X}

Build fails; inactive upstream; package in poor state

LI Daobing <lidaobing>

chipw

{X}

{X}

Fails to build due to API changes; asked upstream about wx3 on IRC

Luke Faraone <luke@faraone.cc>

gnudatalanguage

(./)

{X}

Axel Beckert <abe>

openbabel

(./)

{X}

builds ok

Debichem Team <debichem-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

qutemol

?

{X}

No upstream release for 6+ years

Debichem Team <debichem-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

flamerobin

(./)

{X}

Damyan Ivanov <dmn>

codelite

(./)

{X}

B-D libwxsqlite3-2.8-dev

Orphaned

hugin

(./)

{X}

Debian ?PhotoTools Maintainers <pkg-phototools-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

barry

{X}

{X}

build fails (wxListCtrl not defined)

Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>

asc

(./)

{X}

builds and runs OK

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

plee-the-bear

{X}

{X}

builds fails (wxString-related issues)

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

springlobby

?

{X}

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

megaglest

?

{X}

libglew1.9 transition

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

wxsvg

(./)

{X}

Builds OK; Newer upstream release exists

Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

thuban

{X}

{X}

last release 2009

Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

tintii

{X}

{X}

newer upstream version (2.8.2); configure fails to handle version 3.0.0

Daniel Echeverry <epsilon77@gmail.com>

spatialite-gui

(./)

{X}

not in testing; experimental has newer version which should be wx2.9 compat; upstream has newer still

Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

sandboxgamemaker

?

{X}

contrib; RFA

Scott Howard <showard>

freespace2-launcher-wxlauncher

{X}

{X}

contrib; upstream hg says "wxWidgets 2.8.10+ (but not 2.9.x)"

Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob>

freedink-dfarc

{X}

{X}

Build fails due to changes to wx constant name changes

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

gambit

(./)

{X}

fails to build, but newer upstream apparently works with 2.9.x

orphaned

pgn2web

{X}

{X}

fails to build; no upstream release for 8.5 years

Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>

objcryst-fox

{X}

{X}

fails to build due to API changes; newer upstream versions

Carlo Segre <segre>

audacity

?

{X}

Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

guayadeque

?

{X}

BD on libwxsqlite3-2.8-dev

Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

sooperlooper

?

{X}

Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

openmsx-catapult

?

{X}

Bas Wijnen <wijnen>

3depict

{X}

{X}

Fails to build

Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

cba

?

{X}

Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

mrpt

?

{X}

Jose Luis Blanco (University of Malaga) <joseluisblancoc@gmail.com>

xmlcopyeditor

?

{X}

Miriam Ruiz <miriam>

spek

?

{X}

Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander@kojevnikov.com>

filezilla

?

{X}

Adrien Cunin <adri2000@ubuntu.com>

ctsim

?

{X}

Kevin M. Rosenberg <kmr>

stimfit

?

{X}

macports built it; needs wxPython

Christoph Schmidt-Hieber <christsc@gmx.de>

freqtweak

?

{X}

Last upstream release was 2004

Bhavani Shankar <right2bhavi@gmail.com>

mediainfo

?

{X}

Chow Loong Jin <hyperair>

nautic

?

{X}

Enas Giovanni <gio.enas@alice.it>

amule

{X}

{X}

Fails to build

Debian aMule Team <pkg-amule-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

crystalspace

?

{X}

Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

trustedqsl

?

{X}

Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@lists.debian.org>

maitreya

?

{X}

BD on libwxsqlite3-2.8-dev

Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com>

gentle

?

{X}

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

ginkgocadx

?

{X}

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

mriconvert

?

{X}

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

sitplus

?

{X}

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

treeviewx

?

{X}

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

stx-btree

?

{X}

Yury Stankevich <urykhy@gmail.com>

boinc

{X}

{X}

Fails to build

Debian BOINC Maintainers <pkg-boinc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>