Today's open source bughunt story:
1. Lets get rid of gtk2 on my system!
2. gtkspell needs gtk2, pidgin needs gtkspell
3. Lets open a bug on ArchLinux to switch pidgin from gtkspell->gtkspell3
4. The ArchLinux bug tracker has moved to GitLab
5. gtkspell is hard pidgin dependency, lets check upstream.
6. pidgin's bug tracker has moved to Jira
7. pidgin plans the gtkspell3 upgrade for the 3.0 release
8. the pidgin 3.0 release has been under progress for 14 years now.