The Debian GNOME team would like to remove the GTK˙2 graphics
toolkit, which has been unmaintained upstream for more than five
years, and ship Debian˙14 ("forky") without it. As one might
expect, however, there are those who would like to find a way to keep
it. Despite its age and declared obsolescence, quite a few Debian
packages still depend on GTK˙2. Many of those applications are
unlikely to be updated, and users are not eager to give them
up. Discussion about how to handle this is ongoing; it seems likely
that Debian developers will find some way to continue supporting
applications that require GTK˙2, but users may have to look
outside official Debian repositories.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1051006/
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