This package has Build-Depends on GTK 2 (libgtk2.0-dev), or produces binary packages with a Depends on GTK 2. GTK 2 was superseded by GTK 3 in 2011 (see <https://bugs.debian.org/947713>). It no longer receives any significant upstream maintenance, and in particular does not get feature development for new features like UI scaling on high-pixel-density displays (HiDPI) and native Wayland support. GTK 3 is in maintenance mode and GTK 4 is approaching release, so it seems like a good time to be thinking about minimizing the amount of GTK 2 in the archive. GTK 2 is used by some important productivity applications like GIMP, and has also historically been a popular UI toolkit for proprietary software that we can't change, so perhaps removing GTK 2 from Debian will never be feasible. However, it has reached the point where a dependency on it is a bug - not a release-critical bug, and not a bug that can necessarily be fixed quickly, but a piece of technical debt that maintainers should be aware of. A porting guide is provided in the GTK 3 documentation: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/migrating.html Some libraries (for example libgtkspell0) expose GTK as part of their API/ABI, in which case removing the deprecated dependency requires breaking API/ABI. For these libraries, in many cases there will already be a corresponding GTK 3 version (for example libgtkspell3-3-0), in which case the GTK 2-based library should probably be deprecated or removed itself. If there is no GTK 3 equivalent, of a GTK 2-based library, maintainers should talk to the dependent library's upstream developers about whether the dependent library should break API/ABI and switch to GTK 3, or whether the dependent library should itself be deprecated or removed. A few packages extend GTK 2 by providing plugins (theme engines, input methods, etc.) or themes, for example ibus and mate-themes. If these packages deliberately support GTK 2 even though it is deprecated, and they also support GTK 3, then it is appropriate to mark this mass-filed bug as wontfix for now. I have tried to exclude these packages from the mass-bug-filing, but I probably missed some of them. Regards, smcv
As announced [1], we are trying to remove gtk2 from forky. Therefore, I am raising the severity of this issue. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/01/msg00090.html On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, Jeremy Bícha
Do we have a fix for this? It seems we need to either re-write or drop ClassicLadder.
I have pushed a GTK-3 port to the git repository. Please check whether it works for you and consider uploading a new version with it applied.
I am uploading this as NMU.
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of nted, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 967656@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> (supplier of updated nted package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org) Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:47:16 +0200 Source: nted Architecture: source Version: 1.10.18-13.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gilles Filippini <pini@debian.org> Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> Closes: 967656 Changes: nted (1.10.18-13.1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload * Apply multi-arch hints. + nted-doc: Add Multi-Arch: foreign * lintian: Address license-problem-font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment * Build with GTK-3 (Closes: #967656) Checksums-Sha1: 93e58ae5449b3da7094b145bfab346c063271193 1793 nted_1.10.18-13.1.dsc 4438bf42d3a6857d3c0cd69d0f1af5c4b7d4bdc2 51904 nted_1.10.18-13.1.debian.tar.xz 134dcb7dac3b9556427f3943cd88ee329aa62a0c 8497 nted_1.10.18-13.1_source.buildinfo Checksums-Sha256: f63eac2611684885306d49c33793d069447d5a0553089f711068cfaa97686ac2 1793 nted_1.10.18-13.1.dsc 73e5004068830ebae012d9edc03ee9bbd3fafc660fc39f4f3bf7f629d330be36 51904 nted_1.10.18-13.1.debian.tar.xz 98982e48db0530bde0174e603677b7a327cdab4de32f0b71ec8b0cb28b8c1207 8497 nted_1.10.18-13.1_source.buildinfo Files: be354859ad1fd44f681b66e8f3d5de7b 1793 sound optional nted_1.10.18-13.1.dsc 805c8ff30e7bd25c61195edf92b43298 51904 sound optional nted_1.10.18-13.1.debian.tar.xz 394bddd716c5d6ce4556f31f70349ecb 8497 sound optional nted_1.10.18-13.1_source.buildinfo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQHEBAEBCgAuFiEEQGIgyLhVKAI3jM5BH1x6i0VWQxQFAmpstbQQHGJhZ2VAZGVi aWFuLm9yZwAKCRAfXHqLRVZDFOsyC/oCZujvoQJ9rQcEGPm0uSHTrd1zmxzQIWno 338glq4gZlh4YjkTet2STmRD+sT+94823wtAK+uQHzBFpp/zkelyjitbYuqiUqmA 2UzGHbnvqlA3PmXVVH4oWE5uazkQH5BLQX3niAvNe/pogxD90eCzKmI4Zg55/zMT db7yWRevB0RFMXr++XphZdYurqpuo/+EW/DVW92AtaeAc2pjPd+PaU3tn3Tllq8Z CYHj6hj+hB9OLMZvvbNrPTezkyb2dxEOfWJ2O9cdefwP6kK0oJA036y2ctopeKcS Dyn8ZbpayiouaAbJ2kmNXeuJ2RkDyOVxVROUA0+u4pL5M4MmUXazzY2jciViQ2Ao fCoB8TdsBgnC63vbbYk7IUdJQVn/3PMoOmO8KWgK9iujZT0xNrGhIIxP2+Ppuojr qTZXWhVX5j82bxWVomalzouUh9ryRx1vYO48GGa8869STRiNntuIARv6IgCljVfV ODtJeLZ5VjvKMe1tT6hfh9iVIOCXK2w= =PklZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----