Bug#833694: libreoffice-gtk is no longer installable

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 07:08:04AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Yes, no longer built. You want libreoffice-gtk2. That clearly shows that it's for
> old version of GTK and that current desktops want Gtk3.

For why it's renamed:

Would you have preffered -gtk2 as a new package and -gtk3 merged into -gtk? That would
be the other alternative but the upgrade problem then would also be there for -gtk3 *and*
people expecting to get stuff for a Gtk(2) dektop will get the GTk3 stuff.

Might work, might not.

And you were not able to remove -gtk then without breaking some GNOME functionality
(gnome-documents)

So it ended up as a new package.

And yes, the upgrade path might not be clean, see the freshly reported #833676.

Regards,

Rene