lbglib-json in Jessie

Allin Cottrell cottrell at wfu.edu
Sun Jul 8 23:23:32 BST 2018


Apologies for butting in, but maybe I can clarify a little. (I'm a 
co-developer of gretl with Riccardo.)

The upstream software in question is called json-glib, and the 
Debian packages are libjson-glib*. (The names have gone a little 
adrift up-thread.)

We use json-glib in gretl and are concerned that the version 
supplied with Debian Jessie (namely, 1.0.2) has a significant bug 
that was fixed in version 1.0.4. The latter is just a patch-level 
update so it seems to me Jessie might reasonably offer an update to 
1.0.4.

However, if the preferred policy is minimal change, then (as Charles 
Lamb suggested) the release of a revised version of libjson-glib 
1.0.2 for Jessie with the key fix cherry-picked would be fine by us. 
In that case (maybe I'm repeating what's up-thread), the relevant 
patch can be found as Attachment 293136 at 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741824

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University



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