Bug#704709: mahjongg 3.4 segfault with glib 2.36

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 04/05/2013 01:45 AM, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> It seemed like it was common to mis-use the G(tk)Application APIs during
> the 3.4 era, and many fixes for this was introduced sometime during the
> 3.6 era.
> 
> For mahjongg this particular commit seems to fix the startup segfault:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2012-May/msg03719.html
> (also available at:
> https://gitorious.org/glassrose-gnome/gnome-games/commit/ce2dc8ce176713a61c740bbd5b5d5b82f6e4ffba?format=patch )
> 
> Several other games included in gnome-games seems to have similar programming
> errors.
> 
> The gnome-games set has now been split up and games have their own repository
> and own releases. I wonder if new glib versions should declare a Breaks
> on gnome-games (<< 3.7) .... I assume gnome-games >= 3.7 will be a transitional
> package of some sorts.
> 

I'd rather not add the breaks. If we find other things also break, we can
consider whether to add them or to revert the glib change (temporarily).