[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#911167: GTK2 support will reach EOL in Debian in the near future (Was: Bug#911167: gwyddion: Depend on gtksourceview2)

[David Nečas (Yeti)]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:18:59PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi David and Petr,
> 
> as you can see below, we can not ship gwyddion - at least not in its
> current form with GUI if it will stick to GTK-2+ toolkit.  Do you
> see any chance to port it to GTK-3+?

There is no way to port to GTK+3 without breaking backward
compatibility.  We value backward compatibility.

Some time not that long ago Debian was *the* distribution which supported
the widest range of software.  Now you are removing GTK+2 when Fedora
still offers GTK+1?

This is bat shit crazy.  There will be probably GTK+5 released before we
would be able to port to GTK+3.  GTK+2 is *the* *stable* *version*.  No
one who does actual software development can afford to spend 3/4 of time
and effort constantly porting to some new GTK+ nonsense and deal with
neverending deprecations.

If Debian does not support GTK+2 we will have to tell users to avoid it.

Regards,

Yeti