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[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2023-04-28 at 11:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-04-28 at 11:26 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > the reason is the complete dropping of the unmaintained and
> > unsupported gtk2 libs from the archive ...
> > 
> > in case of gtk2 apps ralf is actually correct, we do not have a
> > content snap/snap extension for these (unlike gtk3/gnome/Qt) so you
> > would actually need to bundle the libs in the snap (gtk2 is rather
> > special here) which you normally do not do anymore due to the
> > extension system snaps provide for all other toolkits. it makes the
> > packaging a tad more complex...
> 
> Hence my PS on Thu, 2023-04-27 at 23:27 +0200:
> "to jump from the frying pan into the fire		
> den Teufel durch (oder: mit dem) Beelzebub austreiben [fig.]"
> 
> With or without a snap GTK{,2} is asking for trouble.

PS:

What I have done is keeping ancient Linux installs on my Linux multi-
boot desktop PC. On my old hardware I still had a Quantal Quetzal Ubuntu
flavour install. It doesn't boot anymore on my new hardware.