Bug#1052165: This bug was never confirmed, but somehow declared as "RC"
From Alex Volkov@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 31 21:10:01 2024
What a fucking nice approach. If a maintainer got bored of maintaining — just invent any bullshit, declare it as "release critical", and request the removal. Genius.
JFYI, it works flawlessly in my Debian 12, and using "deprecated" gtk2 doesn't stop a shitton of other packages to be shipped.