Bug#836707: libgtk-3-dev versioned build-dep is too weak

Andreas Henriksson andreas at fatal.se
Mon Sep 5 08:13:35 UTC 2016


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Hello James Clarke.

Thanks for your bug report.

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 12:49:38AM +0100, James Clarke wrote:
> Source: clutter-gtk
> Version: 1.8.0-2
> Severity: important
> 
> (Not sure if this counts as RC-critical or not, given it's not really an
> FTBFS)

Unsure, but I guess if you interpret policy literally it might be....

> 
> Since clutter-gtk 1.8.0-2 added git_disable-dubbel-buffer.patch it
> bumped up gtk_req_version to 3.21.0, but the build dependency for
> libgtk-3-dev is still only (>= 3.19.4). This causes it to FTBFS on
> architectures which don't yet have gtk+3.0 3.21.0 built (either due to
> slow buildds or failed builds), such as sparc64.

Fixed this in pkg-gnome svn now so should be fixed in next upload.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson



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