Bug#406453: 32bit libgtk2.0 must use /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32

Goswin von Brederlow brederlo at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Jan 17 23:17:30 CET 2007


Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> clone 406453 -1
> severity 406453 grave
> reassign 406453 ia32-gtk-libs
> thanks
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:52:04PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> reassign 406453 libgtk2.0-0
>> thanks
>
>> Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:
>
>> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:36:23AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> >> PS: I set this to grave as it makes ia32-libs-gtk unusable which
>> >> contains libgtk-2.0.
>
>> > Then the problem is ia32-libs-gtk's, not libgtk2.0-0's.  There's no way it's
>> > an RC bug in gtk that you've repackaged it in a way that doesn't work.
>
>> ia32-libs-gtk does contain the libgtk2.0-0.deb, the precompiled binary
>> from i386. The source (included for GPL compliance only) is not and
>> can not be compiled so it can't be patched.
>
> ia32-libs-gtk is unusable -- that's an RC bug in ia32-libs-gtk.  It's
> unusable because gtk+2.0 doesn't support it -- that's a wishlist bug in
> gtk+2.0.
>
> You don't get to add new packages to the archive that depend on
> unimplemented functionality in other packages, and then automatically
> declare this brokenness an RC bug in the underlying package.

Got me there. You are of cause right about the respective severities.

MfG
        Goswin





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