[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#967348: Bug#967348: fpc: depends on deprecated GTK 2

[Peter Blackman]

On 20/02/2026 01:23, David Bannon wrote:
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> On 17/2/26 23:00, Peter Blackman wrote:
>> fp-units-gtk2 is currently essential becuase lazarus Build-Depends on it.
>> Removing it right now would break lazarus.
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> Right. That will do me, I will, as promised, have nothing more to do with this activity.
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> When Lazarus is removed in a couple of weeks, so too will be my project, tomboy-ng. So be it.
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fp-units-gtk2 itself is not the problem.
It no longer depends on gtk2. But of course it would not be much use without it!

Lazarus depending on libgtk2.0-dev is the issue.

Packages are only being temporarily removed from Testing.
They are not being removed from from Sid (Unstable).

Also, looks like you are in good company
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi