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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 16:18 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit :
> 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.

According to the upstream changelog it fixes 27 bugs.

> 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;

The glib in unstable is destined for etch, whether you like it or not.

> 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;

$µ%@ø@ʱø

> 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.

Sorry, but you don't make a soname bump just for the sake of
applications ignoring function semantics. If you can't read the desktop
entry specification (explicitly referenced by the glib documentation)
that says "Key names must contain only the characters A-Za-z0-9-", it's
too bad for you if it starts breaking later.

Robert, can you send me a key-file that fails loading with the latest
glib, so that I can see which characters it is using in keys?

Thanks,
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