Bug#334534: Patch from bug 307724 breaks Eclipse

Billy Biggs vektor at dumbterm.net
Tue Oct 18 15:59:48 UTC 2005


Loic Minier (lool at dooz.org):

>  Updating stable for something as large as Gtk isn't trivial, and only
>  happens for really important fixes which are visibly correct.
>  Updating to a higher version is not an option for Debian, but
>  updating the patch to match the actual fix implemented upstream is
>  more feasible.
> 
>  However, how much confidence do you have that it won't break
>  anything?  Would it break older version of Eclipse working around the
>  Gtk bug?

  The patch applied to Debian's 2.6.4 matches the fix in 2.6.8 as far as
I know.  The issue is that Eclipse can't easily determine whether it
should shut off its workaround, so it wrongly considers Debian's 2.6.4
to be broken.  The workaround conflicts and Eclipse breaks.

  So, the 2.6.4 in Debian stable is "fixed". but's no longer
"GTK+ 2.6.4" as it claims to be.

  -Billy






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