Bug#501133: please add patch to allow keeping fds open

[Thomas Viehmann]

Package: vte
Version: 1:0.16.14-3
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-CC: 493353 at bugs.debian.org

Hi Loic, Sebastian, Gnome Maintainers,

as witnessed by #493353, the GTK frontend to gdebi is completely broken
because it relies on a patch to vtk that provides a way to keep dpkg's
status-fd open. The patch looks fairly sane to me.
In terms of the lenny release, we seem to have three options
1) patch vtk as attached,
2) remove gdebi-gtk (or gdebi),
3) work around the problem (e.g. open a named pipe and invoke a dpkg
   wrapper that proxies that to the dpkg status-fd).

At this point, the easiest path seems to be 1), with the main argument
against it being that upstream 0.17 does not seem to have incorporated
the patch.

Opinions? I'd be happy to actually do the upload, but I would prefer an
explicit OK for it, either here or on IRC.

Kind regards

T.
-- 
Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/
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