Bug#694340: libgconf2-4: libgconf built with the dbus backend requires dbus-glib to be initialized with threading

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 26 novembre 2012 à 07:49 +0800, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : 
> > Maybe we should just port GConf to GDBus instead, which doesn’t have
> > this issue, but this is not a small change.
> 
> That was mentioned in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683830, but
> given that it isn't a small change, it's probably not going to happen for
> Wheezy. Can we slap a downstream patch in the meantime? This bug causes Banshee
> to crash pretty reliably.

But we can’t fix the bug by introducing another bug.

After reading the upstream discussion, I am convinced your patch is a
bad idea, since it will fix banshee but might trigger crashes in other
applications.

Only a port to GDBus would do the trick, unfortunately.

Cheers,
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