Bug#1051373: libglib2.0-0: 2.77.3-1 breaks Midnight Commander extension file

[Philip Withnall]

See upstream report
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3095#note_1839091, which
will be fixed upstream for 2.78.0, which is due to be released in the
next couple of days.

Philip

On Wed, 2023-09-06 at 22:49 +0000, Michael Gold wrote:
> Package: libglib2.0-0
> Version: 2.77.3-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After upgrading libglib2.0-0 from 2.77.2-1 to 2.77.3-1, I'm no longer
> able to open files by selecting them in Midnight Commander and
> pressing
> Enter.  A change in the behaviour of g_key_file_get_string() appears
> to
> be the cause.  For example, one section of the mc.ext.ini file
> contains:
>         [pdf]
>         Regex=\.(pdf|PDF|ps|djvu)$
>         Open=pdf %f &
> 
> With the new package, a call to g_key_file_get_string() for the
> "Regex"
> value returns NULL.  If I pre-load the old library version, it
> returns
> the string, and mc executes the specified command if I press Enter
> with
> a PDF file selected.
> 
> The package version of "mc" is "3:4.8.29-2".
> 
> - Michael
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: trixie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable-debug
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1,
> 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 depends on:
> ii  libc6         2.37-7
> ii  libffi8       3.4.4-1
> ii  libmount1     2.39.2-1
> ii  libpcre2-8-0  10.42-4
> ii  libselinux1   3.5-1
> ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.13.dfsg-3
> 
> Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 recommends:
> ii  libglib2.0-data   2.77.3-1
> ii  shared-mime-info  2.2-1
> ii  xdg-user-dirs     0.18-1
> 
> Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 suggests:
> pn  low-memory-monitor  <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information