Hi all,
As most of you might be (or not be) aware, GTK:2 has reached EOL in
December 2020,
following the announcement of GTK:4. We are now in the process of
cleaning up
GTK:2 ebuilds and moving the packages to use GTK:3 and drop GTK:2 support.
In the coming days, bugs will be opened for all packages which are still
using GTK:2.
We encourage all maintainers who get a bug to start the migration soon,
to ensure a smooth
transition.
This transition is expected to take a long time so there shouldn't be a
worry about sudden
changes in packages. We are going to keep some of the more important old
GTK:2 ebuilds,
such as the CJK ebuilds, around as long as we have GTK:2 in the tree.
Newer packages are
encouraged to be GTK:3 only.
The starting point of the transition are packages which have GTK:3
support and optional GTK:2
support. Most of the bugs of this kind have already been filed[1] and is
the safest
place to start killing off GTK:2.
Best,
Aisha
[1] https://blog.gtk.org/2020/12/16/gtk-4-0/
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/768993
