On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:22:21 +0000 Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote:
> "It does mean, however, that GTK 2 has reached the end of its life. > We will do one final 2.x release in the coming days, and we encourage > everybody to port their GTK 2 applications to GTK 3 or 4." I read that as there will be one more gtk2 release and none after that. This seems to imply: * When there's a security flaw in gtk2 there won't be a fix from upstream. * When there's an incompatibility with new infrastructure (e.g. new gcc version / new glibc / changing API of libraries gtk depends on) there will be no updates from upstream. This means in all those instances maintainers will have to get patches from somewhere. We'll likely end up with some form of gtk-2.x-r[largenumber] with a large patchset at some point. Maintaining that will be an increasing burden. No urgency, but a sign to slowly move off gtk2. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/
