On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 08:59:38AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > This makes sense, but firefox-esr hasn't been tested against gtk+-2.0 > ever, neither on Debian nor on Mozilla end. AFAIK RedHat do such builds, > but I don't know if they carry extra patches. > > What does the security team think here? We had this discussion in the > past, but IIRC back then it wasn't a given that building against > gtk+-2.0 might be a possibility.
We should definitely follow testing/sid here and continue to use GTK3, even the low level tool chain changes caused unexpected problems in jessie compared to stretch, also diverging with a UI toolkit which is not used by upstream would open a whole new can of worms. Cheers, Moritz