On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:40:01AM +0200, Simon McVittie wrote:
GTK 2 is used by some important productivity applications like GIMP, and has also historically been a popular UI toolkit for proprietary software that we can't change, so perhaps removing GTK 2 from Debian will never be feasible. However, it has definitely reached the point where a dependency on it is a bug - not a release-critical bug, and not a bug that can necessarily be fixed quickly, but a piece of technical debt that maintainers should be aware of.
Thanks for expressing this so well! For folks interested in working with historical software, historical toolkits are vital. It was for this reason I am sad at the glee with which people removed Qt4 from the archive, and similar such things. But at the same time you are right that packaged F/OSS software really should migrate toolkits eventually. Or at least the vast majority of it should. -- 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@dow.land 🔗 https://jmtd.net
