{"id":153586,"date":"2026-01-15T17:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/v-debian-14-namereny-prekratit-postavku-gtk2"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:12:03","slug":"v-debian-14-namereny-prekratit-postavku-gtk2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/sv\/blog\/news\/v-debian-14-namereny-prekratit-postavku-gtk2","title":{"rendered":"I Debian 14 planerar man att sluta leverera GTK2.","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Team for Debian maintainers responsible for GNOME packages plans not to include the GTK2 toolkit in the upcoming Debian 14 distribution, expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The GTK project developers have ceased support for GTK2 more than five years ago, and maintaining the abandoned GTK2 in the main repository is becoming problematic. Distributions that have already stopped supplying GTK2 include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16, openSUSE 16, and Arch Linux. Debian is suggested to follow their example. <\/p>\n
Fram betydande projekt som har varit kopplade till GTK2, var GIMP den enda st\u00f6rre applikationen fram till nyligen, men med GIMP 3.0 har denna grafikredigerare portats till GTK3. GTK anv\u00e4nds ocks\u00e5 i den popul\u00e4ra ljudredigeraren Ardour, men det projektet \u00e4r oberoende av externa bibliotek och st\u00f6djer sin egen fork av GTK2 \u2014 YTK. <\/p>\n
The most serious issue blocking the removal of GTK2 is that GTK2 is still used in the graphical installer of Debian. The Debian repository also retains around 150 packages related through dependencies to GTK2, and if GTK2 is discontinued, these packages will need to be removed since they are largely unmaintained and porting them to GTK3 is unlikely. <\/p>\n
Many of these packages have active users who are not willing to switch to other programs. Furthermore, some developers have advocated for maintaining support for GTK2 in Debian, considering the rationale for its removal to be unfounded. For instance, the mention that GTK3 was released 15 years ago is irrelevant, as GTK3 does not replace GTK2, just as GTK4 does not replace GTK3. <\/p>\n
Doubts are also raised regarding arguments such as the lack of HiDPI and Wayland support in GTK2, as these features are not needed, and users are satisfied with the current situation. The comparison with Arch Linux, where GTK2 is excluded from the main repository but available in unofficial ones, is deemed inappropriate. During discussions, a question was also raised about how GTK2 is worse than GCC 3.3, which was included for over 20 years, up to Debian 12, of which 16 years were solely for providing libstdc++5 for outdated executables. <\/p>\n
Advocates for removing GTK2 cite the inability to ensure package security as one of the reasons, while opponents argue that security for GTK2 in Debian has not been a concern for many, and the last error marked as a vulnerability dates back to 2015. <\/p>\n
F\u00f6r n\u00e4rvarande p\u00e5g\u00e5r diskussioner om hur man kan forts\u00e4tta st\u00f6dja applikationer som \u00e4r kopplade till GTK2 i distributionen. Som ett alternativ f\u00f6resl\u00e5s det att flytta GTK2 och de relaterade applikationerna till ett separat, inofficiellt depot. Id\u00e9er inkluderar ocks\u00e5 att skapa en wrapper som \u00f6vers\u00e4tter GTK2:s API till GTK3, samt att \u00f6verg\u00e5 till att leverera en fork av GTK2 fr\u00e5n Ardour-projektet. Det har \u00e4ven f\u00f6reslagits att inte omedelbart ta bort paket, utan att ist\u00e4llet s\u00e4tta dem i tillst\u00e5ndet \"orphaned\" i hopp om att n\u00e5gon kommer att vilja forts\u00e4tta underh\u00e5llet. <\/p>\n
Bland popul\u00e4ra paket knutna till GTK2: <\/p>\n