big distro plans to remove gtk2 (and its reverse deps) from their repo

[GNUser]

I just saw this article this weekend:

https://ludditus.com/2026/01/15/debian-has-its-retards-too-they-plan-to-kill-gtk2/

Lots of useful, stable software (e.g., asunder, hexchat, palemoon, xournal, to name just a few) still depend on gtk2.

I guess the thinking here is that it's better for a toolkit to have bugs or need new features, because then there are commits. Once all the bugs are fixed and all missing features are added, the commits stop and the toolkit becomes a security threat (?). The developers of the distro then yank the toolkit and all the software that depends on it from their repos, thus forcing the users to find new software to do the old job...for the good of the users, of course

P.S. TCL is a haven of sanity. Thank you. I've never seen you guys yank software from the repo just because it is "old". Being old is not a defect.

[Leee]

I couldn't agree more with your points on this - especially the last part:

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P.S. TCL is a haven of sanity. Thank you. I've never seen you guys yank software from the repo just because it is "old". Being old is not a defect.