Bug#947713: libgtk2.0-0: is deprecated and mostly unmaintained

[Simon McVittie]

Package: libgtk2.0-0
Version: 2.24.25-3
Severity: important
Tags: upstream wontfix
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gtk2
Control: block -1 by 885135

In case someone has somehow not realised in the almost 9 years since GTK
3.0 was released: GTK 2 is deprecated, will not receive further feature
development, and only rarely receives bug fixes. 2.24.x is the last
stable-branch, from which the most recent release was almost 2 years ago.

In particular, GTK 2 is problematic on HiDPI displays and lacks native
Wayland support, and these are not going to be fixed.

Porting libraries and applications to GTK 3 (or even GTK 4, when it
becomes available) is strongly recommended. Libraries will usually need
a new SONAME when they move to GTK 3, for example libindicator.so.7 ->
libindicator3.so.7 and libvte.so.9 -> libvte-2.91.so.0.

There are currently no concrete plans to remove GTK 2 from Debian,
but I'm sure it will become necessary one day, and I don't want anyone
to be able to claim they weren't warned. At some point I might do a
mass-bug-filing for packages that depend on GTK 2.

    smcv