Bug#885143: libreoffice-gtk2: Drop gtk2 support

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 10:13:43AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Please consider dropping gtk2 support even if upstream continues to
> provide a gtk2 compile option.
> 
> While it's impractical in 2018 to have a Debian desktop without gtk3
> installed (unless you want an obscure web browser), it will be

is it?

xfce4-panel | 4.12.2-1      | unstable           | source, amd64, arm64,
armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el,
s390x

Package: xfce4-panel
Version: 4.12.2-1
Installed-Size: 3359
Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers <pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libexo-1-0 (>= 0.5.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgarcon-1-0 (>= 0.3.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.1), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsm6, libwnck22 (>= 2.30.7), libx11-6, libxext6, libxfce4ui-1-0 (>= 4.9.1), libxfce4util7 (>= 4.9.0), libxfconf-0-2 (>= 4.6.0), exo-utils
Description: panel for Xfce4 desktop environment
Description-md5: 9b9a4e59c64e5736d25051813bfbaf43
Homepage: http://www.xfce.org/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::graphical, interface::x11, role::program,
 scope::application, suite::xfce, uitoolkit::gtk, x11::TODO,
 x11::application
Section: xfce
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xfce4-panel/xfce4-panel_4.12.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 737404
MD5sum: 2f71d8390f52ea9b8359f05a60e1b639
SHA256: 893c318f711dfa9fe91dbd2600bd42e02774d3a9a077c14eee9e6343d4d8242f

Don't believe go, given xfce uses gtk2

> possible to have a desktop without gtk2 installed. And if gtk3 is
> required anyway, why try to use gtk2?
> 
> libreoffice-gtk2 is currently used by default in the Debian Tasks for
> Xfce, LXQt and LXDE. That may have made sense for Stretch because

For the above reasons.

> There's a support burden to provide the gtk2 version that may be
> unjustified if nearly everyone is using the gtk3 version.

There is? How?

Regards,

Rene