libappindicator-gtk2 provides compatibility for GTK 2 applications, and
is mostly unused in Nixpkgs. since GTK 2 is long deprecated and being
removed from Nixpkgs, we remove this as well.
libappindicator and libappindicator-gtk3 continue to be fully identical,
and it may be worth a cleanup later to fully unify them and make one an
alias proper.
libsoup is end-of-life, and has many known unfixed security issues. The
package was marked vulnerable in July 2025, and all in-tree consumers
have either been migrated off, marked broken, or dropped. There remains
very little reason to keep this package around.
libsoup 2 is unmaintained so WebkitGTK decided to drop support for it in next release in March 2026:
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/webkitgtk-is-removing-support-for-libsoup-2/31873
Since the package is security critical, we backport all updates to stable.
Let’s remove it before branch-off to avoid breaking stable when that version is backported.
Image processing library, unmaintained upstream since 2017; probably
a security liability, not a mandatory dependency of any package in
the tree, and would be broken by CMake 4.
This attribute was supposed to be set on derivations, to make the
release tools recurse into them. The remaining uses were all on regular
attrsets, though, so this is safe to remove.
After final improvements to the official formatter implementation,
this commit now performs the first treewide reformat of Nix files using it.
This is part of the implementation of RFC 166.
Only "inactive" files are reformatted, meaning only files that
aren't being touched by any PR with activity in the past 2 months.
This is to avoid conflicts for PRs that might soon be merged.
Later we can do a full treewide reformat to get the rest,
which should not cause as many conflicts.
A CI check has already been running for some time to ensure that new and
already-formatted files are formatted, so the files being reformatted here
should also stay formatted.
This commit was automatically created and can be verified using
nix-build a08b3a4d19.tar.gz \
--argstr baseRev b32a094368
result/bin/apply-formatting $NIXPKGS_PATH
This is very useful in conjunction with meta.pkgConfigModules, as the
new tester can use the list provided by this meta attribute as a default
value for moduleNames, making its usage in passthru.tests very
convenient.
For backwards compatibility, a shim under the old name is maintained
with a warning.
The command at the top of this file fails to evaluate:
```
$ nix-build -A tests.pkg-config.defaultPkgConfigPackages
in job ‘nixpkgs.tests.pkg-config.defaultPkgConfigPackages.tests-combined.x86_64-linux’:
error: pkg-config module `recurseForDerivations` is not defined to be a derivation. Please check the attribute value for `recurseForDerivations` in `pkgs/top-level/pkg-config-packages.nix` in Nixpkgs.
```
This is also causing eval errors on Hydra:
https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/pr-209870-gcc-external-bootstrap#tabs-errors
Let's filter out `recurseForDerivations=true` from the attrset,
since it exists mainly as a flag to signal special handling when
recursing.
