lbglib-json in Jessie

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2018, Chris Lamb wrote:

> Hi Riccardo,
>
>> gretl developer here. We found that libglib-json 1.0.2 (which is the
>> version still present in Jessie) is affected by a relatively nasty bug
> […]
>> I personally was able to get around the problem quite easily by installing
>> on the affected machine the Stretch version (1.2.6), which required just
>> another upgrade (gir1.2-json to 2.0.1).
>
> I'm being slightly misled by your reference to gir1.2-json there as
> this is part of glib-json source package - did you typo with the "lib"
> prefix to "libjson-json"?

Ah, you're right. I just needed that for the "-dev" package, which I need 
for building gretl.

> To clarify/summarise, are you suggesting that we upgrade src:glib-json
> from 1.0.2 → 1.0.4?

Yes (and the dev-package too, of course)

> Why don't we just cherry-pick the aforementioned patch and apply it to 
> 1.0.2? :)

You mean, in my local system? I thought LTS for Jessie ended in 2020, and 
IMO it'd be nice to fix a package in the official repo.

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   Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
   Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)

   Università Politecnica delle Marche
   (formerly known as Università di Ancona)

   r.lucchetti at univpm.it
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