Le Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 09:15:01AM +0100, Sébastien Noel a écrit : > Can't we keep GTK2 in the archive like src:gcc-3.3 was ? > With no active development, just making sure it still builds.
I would love to keep the ability to install GTK2 libraries (both amd64 and i386) from Debian repositories. Many non-free Unity3D video games rely on a plugin named ScreenSelector.so to provide the user with display option (including setting the main screen and the game window size), this plugin is linked against GTK2. A much better option would be a GTK2 → GTK3 compatibility wrapper, like has been done for SDL 1.2 → SDL 2, but I don’t know of any such wrapper. Without a package in the archive or a compatibility wrapper, we can expect a myriad of more-or-less hacky workarounds, leading to breakages due to user mistakes. --- Short version: Please orphan GTK2 instead of removing it.
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