Bug#1121358: openjdk-8: depends on deprecated GTK 2

Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de
Tue Nov 25 16:25:49 GMT 2025


# no problem for openjdk-8
severity 1121358 important
# not in forky
tags 1121358 - forky
thanks

Jeremy Bícha dixit:

>GTK 2 was superseded by GTK 3 in 2011 (see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

Yes, but this is not a problem for openjdk-8, which is also in the
boat of getting fixes only. It’s also not in testing, deliberately.

As there are no plans to remove Gtk+2, I’m downgrading this.



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