gtk+-2.8.14 version bump

Terry Chan tpchan at comcast.net
Thu Mar 9 19:56:53 UTC 2006


So by your logic no updates should ever be allowed because they break ONE
poorly written application?

>From the lack of cvs commits to the galculator sf page it would appear that
galculator is NOT an actively maintained project.

Terry Chan
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:08:59AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Terry Chan wrote:
> > Wed Mar  8 14:22:59 2006  Tim Janik  <timj at imendio.com>
> >
> >        * NEWS: announce change and glib-2.10.1 requirement.
> >
> >        * gtk/gtkobject.c: fixed up messing with non-GtkObject floating flags.
> >        this requires glib-2.10.1.
> >
> > I've bumped gtk+-2 on my lunar box and recompiled many gtk+-2 apps with no
> > problems.  I'm already at glib-2.10.1.
> >
> > glib-2.10.1 works just fine with all of xfce4-profile, including xfce4-panel.
> >
> > Unless I hear otherwise I WILL be bumping gtk+-2 to 2.8.14 and at the same
> > time I'll also bump glib-2.10.1.
> >
> > I really don't care that galculator segfaults with the new glib-2.  That's
> > a problem that the galculator devs MUST fix, not the lunar devs.
> 
> Shouldn't updates /not/ break currently working packages? Do the
> galculator devs know that the new glib-2 breaks their package?
> 
> - -sandalle


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