[$] Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

The Debian GNOME team would like to remove the GTK2 graphicstoolkit, which has been unmaintained upstream for more than fiveyears, and ship Debian14 ("forky") without it. As one mightexpect, however, there are those who would like to find a way to keepit. Despite its age and declared obsolescence, quite a few Debianpackages still depend on GTK2. Many of those applications areunlikely to be updated, and users are not eager to give themup. Discussion about how to handle this is ongoing; it seems likelythat Debian developers will find some way to continue supportingapplications that require GTK2, but users may have to lookoutside official Debian repositories.