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.
