About

Mooedit (also known as medit) is a lightweight but powerful text editor that was discontinued in 2014, and removed from Debian repositories since Debian 10 Bullseye.

Mooedit depends on Python2, which is becoming more and more of a problem as Python2 has reached EOL and was removed from Debian repositories.

This repository contains the latest known official version of medit, with a debian/ folder added for building .deb packages, and adapted to build packages that do not depend on Python2.

Building

With Docker:

docker build -o <output_path> .

Builds the packages and stores them in <output_path>

Manually:

• You can build on a modern distribution (e.g. Debian 12 Bookworm)
• Add APT sources for Buster (essential) and Bullseye (optional if you want some build dependencies to be more modern)
• Clone this repository and cd into it
• Install dependencies - some dependencies will be picked up from Buster, and some from whatever more modern you have available:
  • The easy way: apt-get build-dep medit
  • Manually: apt-get install --no-install-recommends build-essential debhelper pkg-config intltool libxml-parser-perl libxml2-dev python2 python2-dev python-gtk2-dev libgtk2.0-dev
  • The Debian Maintainer way: apt-get install devscripts, then mk-build-deps -ir to install build-deps specified in the package
  • You also need fakeroot to build packages without being root (and you should NOT build stuff as root!)
• MAKEFLAGS="-j4" fakeroot debian/rules binary - build a Debian package in the parent directory

The resulting Bookworm package does not have any runtime dependencies you can't satisfy with Bookworm repositories, so you can simply install it on Bookworm without any trouble.

Notes

For some reason, MAKEFLAGS="-j4" does not have an effect, so don't be surprised that it only uses one CPU core to build.

Details

Here's which dependencies were picked up from which repositories when I was building the Bookworm release (as described above):

Buster:

libffi6 amd64 3.2.1-9 [20.8 kB]
python-cairo amd64 1.16.2-1+b1 [58.4 kB]
python-gobject-2 amd64 2.28.6-13+b1 [288 kB]
python-gobject-2-dev all 2.28.6-13 [307 kB]
python-numpy amd64 1:1.16.2-1 [2,101 kB]
python-gtk2 amd64 2.24.0-5.1+b1 [633 kB]
python-gtk2-dev all 2.24.0-5.1 [146 kB]

Bullseye:

libpython2.7-minimal amd64 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 [397 kB]
python2.7-minimal amd64 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 [1,301 kB]
python2-minimal amd64 2.7.18-3 [34.2 kB]
libssl1.1 amd64 1.1.1w-0+deb11u1 [1,566 kB]
libffi7 amd64 3.3-6 [23.1 kB]
libpython2.7-stdlib amd64 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 [1,864 kB]
python2.7 amd64 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 [311 kB]
libpython2-stdlib amd64 2.7.18-3 [21.2 kB]
python2 amd64 2.7.18-3 [24.5 kB]
libpython2.7 amd64 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 [1,023 kB]
libpython2.7-dev amd64 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 [2,354 kB]
libpython2-dev amd64 2.7.18-3 [21.3 kB]
python-is-python2 all 2.7.18-9 [2,940 B]
python2.7-dev amd64 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 [291 kB]
python2-dev amd64 2.7.18-3 [1,216 B]
python-dev-is-python2 all 2.7.18-9 [1,528 B]
python-pkg-resources all 44.1.1-1 [182 kB]

The rest of them were from Bookworm.

I don't know why it pulled both libffi6 from Buster, libffi7 from Bullseye, and libffi-dev from Bookworm.