On 09/01/26 at 12:22 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri Jan 9, 2026 at 10:14 AM GMT, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > (with my Release Team hat on) > > I welcome the release team's perspective on the issue! > > > If GTK+2 is dead upstream for so long, then it'd be a disservice to our > > users to keep shipping it in new releases. > > Can you expand on why? (If it ins't covered by your existing points below) > > > If you find any of the remaining rdeps useful, there's time to port > > those over to GTK+3 or GTK+4. > > The list of affected packages that Matthias has provided is enormous: > 149 programs. Just glancing at it I see several that I use (openjdk-8, > hexchat, amsynth, pidgin), but I'm just one weirdo: to truly assess the > impact I think we need to x-ref the list against popcon and similar such > exercises.
hexchat is recommended by cinnamon-desktop-environment and education-desktop-lxde, which might inflate its popcon score. Fwiw, the gtk2 applications I have installed and rely on: - verbiste-gtk (a french and italian conjugator). Apparently no port to more modern GTK in progress, but there's a CLI version I could live with; - xournal (a PDF annotator). There's xournalpp (xournal++) that uses GTK3. Lucas
