Hi all, As everyone knows, the BlueInk and GTRecorder packages have been removed from Pharo8.0 quite rapidly https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/5217. And it breaks the loading of other projects on Pharo8.0, like Roassal2. Some claims that those packages will not be deprecated because they are loadable as it from another repository. Why not? So, I tried. For BlueInk, no repository containing the sources has been indicated. And not repository exists on github. For the GTRecorder, the sources are there: https://github.com/pharo-contributions/EventRecorder, according to https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/5232. The problem is that the EventRecorder project does not contain exactly the same classes, the prefix has been changed from GT to ER. So, any reference to one of the classes of this project has to be changed… In particular, we had to make this change to make it load correctly: https://github.com/lifeware-sa/Roassal2/commit/78ce17bba98b89cb21a996cf8acaf 4e053ae082b (and we just have tried to load it so far). I think that not only Roassal is using those dependencies (see there https://github.com/search?o=desc <https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=GTEventCollector&s=indexed&type=Code> &q=GTEventCollector&s=indexed&type=Code and they are just public repos) and migrating them to the latest version of Pharo will be more painful since we need to fix the issue it immediately, or, wait that the maintainer of each project provide a fix to bypass the issues. Therefore, as we have a nice deprecation mechanism in our system, I suggest we use it so we can focus on stuff more important than writing tons of emails. I am then pushing in favor of the integration of this PR: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/5257 so that we can have some time to solve the bugs. And I expect that those packages will be removed in Pharo 9.0. Now that everything is exposed, could the maintainers of the Pharo project take a clear decision concerning this topic? Also, we are expecting some justification on the undertaken action. Thanks, Vincent www.lifeware.ch <http://www.lifeware.ch>