On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > In practice the main purpose of this source package in Debian is to > provide the Adwaita theme for GTK 2, which will have to stay until we > are able to remove GTK 2 completely. > > A few other packages do still depend on this:
The remaining packages are: - cinnamon https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/cinnamon/-/merge_requests/16 - phosh https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/phosh/-/merge_requests/134 - squeekboard https://bugs.debian.org/1121573 - qt6-gtk-platformtheme The qt6 dependency was added recently ( https://bugs.debian.org/1095836 ) . It only depends on gnome-themes-extra-data and I am guessing this is only for the minimal file /usr/share/themes/Adwaita-dark/index.theme squeekboard has a similar dependency. squeekboard is basically a gtk3 app so I suggested that maybe it could use libhandy and opt into modern GNOME dark style support. But I think qt6 is at too low of a level for that to be practical. Maybe we should have another binary package provide that file. Maybe we could have it built as a package from our meta-gnome3/meta-gnome source since I'm not sure of a better package to provide that file. I agree that we ought to keep the gnome-themes-extra packages in Testing as long as gtk2 is in Testing. Same for Unstable. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
