Bug#1126858: matlab-support: Remove Recommends: libgtk2.0-0t64

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le lundi 02 février 2026 à 13:55 -0500, Jeremy Bícha a écrit :
> Package: matlab-support
> Version: 0.3
> Severity: important
> Tags: forky sid
> X-Debbugs-CC: sebastien at debian.org
> 
> Please remove Recommends: libgtk2.0-0t64 . (Please don't add it to
> Suggests either.)
> 
> The Debian GNOME team is working to remove gtk2 from forky so this helps.
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/01/msg00090.html

Note that matlab-support being a support package for proprietary MATLAB
software, it does not use gtk2 itself, so removing the Recommends is
straightforward.

However, the problem is that MATLAB, even in its latest version
(R2025b) still relies on gtk2 for some of its functionality, and does
not vendor the library but uses the distro-provided one. Hopefully they
will remove that dependency in some near release, but even that will
not solve the problem for older MATLAB versions.

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