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Hi all, |
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As most of you might be (or not be) aware, GTK:2 has reached EOL in |
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December 2020, |
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following the announcement of GTK:4. We are now in the process of |
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cleaning up |
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GTK:2 ebuilds and moving the packages to use GTK:3 and drop GTK:2 support. |
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In the coming days, bugs will be opened for all packages which are still |
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using GTK:2. |
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We encourage all maintainers who get a bug to start the migration soon, |
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to ensure a smooth |
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transition. |
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This transition is expected to take a long time so there shouldn't be a |
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worry about sudden |
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changes in packages. We are going to keep some of the more important old |
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GTK:2 ebuilds, |
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such as the CJK ebuilds, around as long as we have GTK:2 in the tree. |
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Newer packages are |
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encouraged to be GTK:3 only. |
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The starting point of the transition are packages which have GTK:3 |
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support and optional GTK:2 |
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support. Most of the bugs of this kind have already been filed[1] and is |
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the safest |
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place to start killing off GTK:2. |
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Best, |
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Aisha |
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[1] https://blog.gtk.org/2020/12/16/gtk-4-0/ |
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[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/768993 |