Bug#967798: vmg: depends on deprecated GTK 2

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 at 19:23:07 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Santiago Vila, le dim. 11 déc. 2022 18:51:52 +0100, a ecrit:
> > This package now FTBFS in bookworm:
> > 
> > Compiling resource ./magnifier.or
> > Linking ./vmg
> > /usr/bin/ld.bfd: cannot find -lgdk-x11-2.0: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Do we need a different bug for the FTBFS problem, or maybe raising this bug
> > to serious would be enough?
> 
> This particular issue rather seems to belong to fp-units-gtk2-3.2.2:
> fp-units-gtk2-3.2.0 used to have the libgtk2.0-dev dependency, but
> fp-units-gtk2-3.2.2 doesn't any more, but it should, it shouldn't be up
> to users of the gtk2 unit to know which C dependency it should take.

What Samuel says sounds right to me. GTK 2 being deprecated doesn't
directly affect other packages that still depend on it: the packages
and compiler/linker invocations involved remain the same. The effect of
deprecation is indirect: it won't get new features or non-critical bug
fixes, and might get removed (particularly if a critical bug is found
and can't easily be fixed).

    smcv