otherwise we might get flooded with bug reports regarding this problem and we might have to make a new release because of it anyway.
Yeah that's kind of my point, whomever fault it is, some of it will land on us. And it still might, as if you install Geany from Debian under GNOME in Bookworm it will show up.
FWIW, I reported it to Debian -- not that I am very hopeful, but if nobody says anything, nothing will happen anyway -- see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054168
Note that unstable doesn't seem affected, because they have a newer version of the Adwaita icon theme which doesn't have the problematic icons anymore. So which distro is affected is gonna be a guessing game -- or rather, testing :)
In fact, `gtk_image_new_from_stock()` is deprecated and we should migrate to `gtk_image_new_from_icon_name()` anyway so we can even call it a small step in the right direction.
Yeah in theory it's a good thing to move away from the GtkStock API, so it's indeed not a pad change per se. If it's not in 2.0, I'll submit something similar for 2.1 anyway.