And again, I will repeat that as a very happy Debian 32-bit OS user, Geany 1.38 is not installable as is, and I don't care to fight Debian, nor you + Geany Developers. And again, for the record, going through a manual install of Geany, compiling, linking, etc. - is just not worth a user's time, headaches, manual GTK lib downloads, etc. The end result of both of us going back and forth like this is: The vast majority of Debian 32-bit users are never going to move beyond Geany 1.33. You or a compadre have explicitly not supported Geany 1.38 on Debian 32-bit OSs.
This thread may be closed, but the issues are far from resolved.