Bug#648724: libgconf2-4: GCONF_DEFAULT_SOURCE_PATH support broken

[Sascha Silbe]

Package: libgconf2-4
Version: 3.2.3-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

the upgrade from gconf 2.32.4-1 to 3.2.3-1 broke the support for
GCONF_DEFAULT_SOURCE_PATH. The latter had been introduced to allow tools
like jhbuild to tell GConf about additional places to search for
defaults and settings. Without this support Sugar [1] won't work inside
sugar-jhbuild [2] as no defaults are set.

This is partially due to an upstream bug (Gnome#664031 [3]) and
partially because Debian explicitly configures GConf to use the new
DBus backend (which lacks GCONF_DEFAULT_SOURCE_PATH support) instead
of the default ORBit backend (which supports GCONF_DEFAULT_SOURCE_PATH).


Invocation on a system that still has gconf 2.32.4-1:

sascha.silbe at mimosa:~$ ~/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild run gconftool-2 --get /desktop/sugar/desktop/favorites_layout
ring-layout
sascha.silbe at mimosa:~$


Invocation on a system with gconf updated to 3.2.3-1:

(wheezy-jhbuild)sascha.silbe at twin:~$ ~/sugar-jhbuild/sugar-jhbuild run gconftool-2 --get /desktop/sugar/desktop/favorites_layout
No value set for `/desktop/sugar/desktop/favorites_layout'
(wheezy-jhbuild)sascha.silbe at twin:~$


[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/What_is_Sugar%3F
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Jhbuild
[3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664031

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libgconf2-4 depends on:
ii  gconf2-common     3.2.3-1
ii  libc6             2.13-21
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.4.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.98-1
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.28.8-1
ii  libldap-2.4-2     2.4.25-4
ii  libxml2           2.7.8.dfsg-5

libgconf2-4 recommends no packages.

libgconf2-4 suggests no packages.

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