[From nobody Wed Apr 8 08:35:10 2026 Received: (at maintonly) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Aug 2020 11:02:13 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2018-09-13) on buxtehude.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.7 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,FOURLA, FROMDEVELOPER,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 3; hammy, 150; neutral, 111; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--oldlibs, 0.000-+--H*F:U*smcv, 0.000-+--H*rp:U*smcv, 0.000-+--H*r:smcv@debian.org, 0.000-+--H*RU:smcv@debian.org Return-path: <smcv@debian.org> Received: from illusion.pseudorandom.co.uk ([2a00:1098:0:80:1000:6:0:2]:38336) by buxtehude.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from <smcv@debian.org>) id 1k2uhx-00061C-Mw for maintonly@bugs.debian.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:02:13 +0000 Received: by illusion.pseudorandom.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F2EE5C15F3; Tue, 4 Aug 2020 12:02:12 +0100 (BST) From: smcv@debian.org To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org Subject: skinedit: depends on deprecated GTK 2 Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:02:09 +0100 X-Generator: mass-bug from devscripts 2.20.4 Message-Id: <20200804110212.F2EE5C15F3@illusion.pseudorandom.co.uk> Delivered-To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org Source: skinedit Severity: normal User: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: gtk2 oldlibs Control: block 947713 by -1 This package has Build-Depends on GTK 2 (libgtk2.0-dev), or produces binary packages with a Depends on GTK 2. GTK 2 was superseded by GTK 3 in 2011 (see <https://bugs.debian.org/947713>). It no longer receives any significant upstream maintenance, and in particular does not get feature development for new features like UI scaling on high-pixel-density displays (HiDPI) and native Wayland support. GTK 3 is in maintenance mode and GTK 4 is approaching release, so it seems like a good time to be thinking about minimizing the amount of GTK 2 in the archive. 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 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. A porting guide is provided in the GTK 3 documentation: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/migrating.html Some libraries (for example libgtkspell0) expose GTK as part of their API/ABI, in which case removing the deprecated dependency requires breaking API/ABI. For these libraries, in many cases there will already be a corresponding GTK 3 version (for example libgtkspell3-3-0), in which case the GTK 2-based library should probably be deprecated or removed itself. If there is no GTK 3 equivalent, of a GTK 2-based library, maintainers should talk to the dependent library's upstream developers about whether the dependent library should break API/ABI and switch to GTK 3, or whether the dependent library should itself be deprecated or removed. A few packages extend GTK 2 by providing plugins (theme engines, input methods, etc.) or themes, for example ibus and mate-themes. If these packages deliberately support GTK 2 even though it is deprecated, and they also support GTK 3, then it is appropriate to mark this mass-filed bug as wontfix for now. I have tried to exclude these packages from the mass-bug-filing, but I probably missed some of them. Regards, smcv ]