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

[Chow Loong Jin]

On 26/11/2012 17:28, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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.

I guess we'll have to hack in a patch further downstream then. Perhaps
gconf-sharp. I think I might have tried sometime back, but I don't recall why
that didn't work.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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