Bug#1052165: This bug was never confirmed, but somehow declared as "RC" to remove the package.

[Alex Volkov]

What a fucking nice approach. If a maintainer got bored of maintaining — just invent any bullshit, declare it as "release critical", and request the removal. Genius.

JFYI, it works flawlessly in my Debian 12, and using "deprecated" gtk2 doesn't stop a shitton of other packages to be shipped.

This distro went to shit.