Has anyone managed to build spacefm or debianize spacefm for Excalibur yet? Upstream Debian did something shady and replaced the spacefm package with gtk3 whereas previously spacefm was gtk2 (congruent with upstream spacefm's recommendations) and there was a seperate packge spacefm-gtk3 if you wanted that. This was done by the "debian gnome team".

Unfortunately building spacefm yourself on Excalibur isn't so easy. There's some things that needs to be patched in the source code. Also using the gtk3 version isn't usable because of constant segfaults, clipboard not working, gtk3 breakage and mess.

Secondly claws-mail maintains a separate gtk2 branch. I've managed to compile that and use it with upstream Debian made claws-mail gtk3 even though it's a separate branch. This is working and continues to work after the upgrade but compiling and installing from source leaves it out from apt's package management. There's now been some minor updates to the gtk2 branch of claws-mail I'd like to install but it's not so easy tracking claws-mail releases anymore.

Surely someone has done this work before? I don't want to rebuild and repackage these things if somebody else has already done that.