Re: MBF: Removal of GTK2 from forky

Fri, 9 Jan 2026 14:40:46 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:

 > Adopting GTK2 in Debian (and only in Debian) isn't really a solution
 > here, because GTK2 has been dead upstream for years, so there will be
 > no new releases (or even commits) from which to take bug fixes.
 > Upstream has moved on to GTK3, and then GTK4.

Rhetorical question: does it really matter if it's dead upstream ?

src:gcc-3.3 was in Debian for 2 decades. The last 16 years it was there 
just to provide libstdc++5 for legacy binaries, years after upstream 
moved on to newer version.

Can't we keep GTK2 in the archive like src:gcc-3.3 was ?
With no active development, just making sure it still builds.

br,
Sébastien