Comment Comment by Thev00d00 This is interesting to see and shows the beauty of open source: if you want GTK2 to be alive, you can put in the effort to revive it.This being Devuan it is driven by those pesky Debian devs removing GTK2> Debian is not the only distro doing this. A few months ago, Arch Linux> removed GTK 2 from its official (non-AUR) repositories [1]. RHEL 10 was> released earlier in 2025 without GTK 2.>> gtk3 was released 15 years ago. Debian has had the stable 3.24 series> for more than 7 years.The announcement[0] has a quite long list of packages still using it.0. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/01/msg00090.html parent Thev00d00 6 months ago
This being Devuan it is driven by those pesky Debian devs removing GTK2
> Debian is not the only distro doing this. A few months ago, Arch Linux
> removed GTK 2 from its official (non-AUR) repositories [1]. RHEL 10 was
> released earlier in 2025 without GTK 2.
>
> gtk3 was released 15 years ago. Debian has had the stable 3.24 series
> for more than 7 years.
The announcement[0] has a quite long list of packages still using it.
0. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/01/msg00090.html