Le mardi 03 février 2026 à 08:17 -0500, Jeremy Bícha a écrit : > On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 5:17 AM Sébastien Villemot <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Note that matlab-support being a support package for proprietary MATLAB > > software, it does not use gtk2 itself, so removing the Recommends is > > straightforward. > > > > However, the problem is that MATLAB, even in its latest version > > (R2025b) still relies on gtk2 for some of its functionality, and does > > not vendor the library but uses the distro-provided one. Hopefully they > > will remove that dependency in some near release, but even that will > > not solve the problem for older MATLAB versions. > > Because gtk2 is still in Forky for the Debian Installer, I guess it > could be ok to keep the Recommends: gtk2 for now too. > > If you have contact with the MATLAB maintainers, it might be good to > let them know that distros are getting closer to removing gtk2 from > their main repositories. Arch Linux did that a few months ago > (although gtk2 was added to the AUR instead).
I got in touch with them and it looks like they will remove the GTK 2 dependency in the next MATLAB release (R2026a). > Because MATLAB is proprietary, paid software, it's possible for people > to only have a license to an older version, right? ☹️ Yes, indeed. Licenses are typically tied to a given version (until you pay for upgrading). -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org
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