Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 00:49 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 14:47 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit :
> > Package: glib2.0
> > Version: 2.12.5-3
> > 
> > This version of glib (both 2.12.5-3 and 2.12.6-1) causes an important
> > regression in gnucash, and therefore should not go into testing.
> > 
> > See http://bugs.debian.org/404585.
> 
> What if you told us which characters are needed by gnucash instead of
> whining and asking important bug fixes to be blocked outside etch?

I don't think I asked for important bug fixes to be blocked outside
etch.  On the other hand, the upload of 2.12.5 did not fix any bugs,
according to the changelog and the BTS.

I don't know what the additional characters are or syntax which is
needed.  I could investigate, except:

1) The release team has asked us not to upload changes which are not
destined for etch, and making gnucash work with the glib in unstable is
therefore a low priority;

2) I shouldn't need to spend energy asking you to please work on getting
etch out, instead of making uploads that won't get in etch anyway;

3) The change altered the syntax of the file by adding restrictions. It
is therefore a non-backwards-compatible change to the ABI, and therefore
it needs an so-name bump.  No amount of adding this or that character
will change that, unless you simply restore the previous behavior.

Number (3) is the most serious issue, as I understand the case.

Thomas

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