"Debian 14, codenamed 'Forky,' is in development and will very probably be released in about 18 months. As with any new release, the developers are removing various old and unsupported packages, including Gtk2. It's already gone from RHEL, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE 16, Arch, and others."
"The problem is that quite a lot of apps still use Gtk2. The Debian announcement links to a list of 139 of them - this translated Russian article mentions 34 of the highlights. One of these is the FreePascal compiler and its IDE Lazarus, which over on the FreePascal forums has caused some alarm."
"Ardour still uses Gtk2. After Gtk2's end of life, the Ardour team had to find a workaround. The result is its own fork of Gtk2, known as YTK. It switched to the new toolkit a year ago and removed Gtk2 support six months later."
Debian 14 ('Forky') will drop Gtk2 support, following other major distributions like RHEL, SUSE, and Arch. Although Gtk2 reached end-of-life in December 2020 after 18 years, approximately 139 applications still depend on it. Major projects like MATE and Xfce successfully migrated to Gtk3, but smaller projects face significant challenges. FreePascal and its Lazarus IDE are among the affected applications, causing concern in the FreePascal community. The Ardour digital audio workstation addressed this by creating YTK, its own Gtk2 fork, providing a potential solution model for other projects facing similar migration pressures.
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