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 GTK 2 was superseded by GTK 3 in 2011 (see 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.
Please check the upstream Pull Request for an implementation of this.
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of tenace, 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 967769@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> (supplier of updated tenace 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: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:13:45 +0200 Source: tenace Architecture: source Version: 0.19-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> Changed-By: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> Closes: 967769 Changes: tenace (0.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream version 0.19. . [ Bastian Germann ] * Port to GTK 3. (Closes: #967769) Checksums-Sha1: 3e4e26b42d8e2017797da407495e91e3eae3c2fc 1832 tenace_0.19-1.dsc 3503feb18c057e0cf65357287b80663675fe6015 263472 tenace_0.19.orig.tar.gz c3892e798fb0433690cfbdb340885f4c9678efc4 3180 tenace_0.19-1.debian.tar.xz Checksums-Sha256: 487745ba34562fc23934c547ba2a008bd23ede419fc7d070f569ea4ccdccabd2 1832 tenace_0.19-1.dsc c91a12d9f991e04162041fd984910f6fa6d841ec5e625126f2ec9d8508f3b554 263472 tenace_0.19.orig.tar.gz fc1559f15dc7f80226fbfc77cf77cd50b9e20f5858a51fdff29e219d45f51e57 3180 tenace_0.19-1.debian.tar.xz Files: 56ad3a28a341e2c680df0ecaff661c2e 1832 games optional tenace_0.19-1.dsc d8958c218ff79508a5ed9a60d8998a77 263472 games optional tenace_0.19.orig.tar.gz cbccb3552217ac5fdad6940f63a0fcbd 3180 games optional tenace_0.19-1.debian.tar.xz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEXEj+YVf0kXlZcIfGTFprqxLSp64FAmqPL0sACgkQTFprqxLS p66QBw/+N1Qg+0khLnMjbP36wIABb9NKfeKWFqA3brKX7vjADv0rBNhvrdSkL2/B w/K47mTghhC1JQC6MHRiaW5pKfdWssVMntHFIOQOdJbanE+cwZ5vPIKY4s+xRykS CGLPqrfmtxDdUPGmwmvrw3U5J9Magu0izD1bYCDrjHCvEt7+Gzid92qloksE7mAs iS5/Yd9MGgDsIgwIYQKWy7SKTYjrLAZBst3vpYioESUgbkZuP+Oq2fwCcb9g6y67 GfgZ3xFwr0O86r1gbjFvALea9/8A46r4uAHMpAfwvCP3BQA2fPOP3yNNI5636GaN Dvn5GyiHQQyhhy7Yzn98BTmdvJc5HI3zp822H0Yek8eD0ycfXbKem3y3GnuaZMbA cTvxOcgm1FKnu7hU4uWo90avxLI6UKgJH2u/QdgcCOZotoENEZRgBSk6kDVZQrzj QPnHhGZGah4ZVbi2R8n7BIUITj2raqq9rpX+sL6GWahLKKtAZbPhD+Ez90o1B7zg B5BrhefvYEkDX0zy8TqH4erLSrXLI40GgmlWxGxlsOTKqyFWen5XVODawA5otxah Ub0/XD+dfkX7kxI6iSdbIV9CtgOrQgOjdVpRo+IZbzhyzL+Vnz8xuBS78OQ2Ubin pH2dkHb728T4XdvdDEqWj2M1rAJei6IhJEtgYsqCZgAw5jmjsPE= =Ngrf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----