Bug#842070: libgtk-3-0: Upgrade breaks gvim: Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed

[Abou Al Montacir]

Control: severity -1 grave

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 19:49:11 +0000 Stephan Dollberg <stephan.dollberg at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:26:39 -0400 (EDT) Olivier Fourdan <
> ofourdan at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andreas
> >
> > > I bisected this issue which pointed at it being introduced in:
> > >
> > > commit 12579fe71b3b8f79eb9c1b80e429443bcc437dd0
> > > Author: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan at redhat.com>
> > > Date:   Thu Oct 6 16:49:39 2016 +0200
> > > [...]
> > > Oliver do you have any ideas or hints on how we should proceed to
> identify
> > > the proper fix?
> >
> > Yes, this is a known issue:
> >
> >   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773387
> >
> > But right now, I don't know how to revert this change and fix both bugs
> 771320 and 767713 differently...
...
> 
> there seem to be patches in Arch for the gvim breakage. Could those help
> debian as well?
...

I've updated my laptop today and hit this bug. I do believe that this bug should
be tagged RC from the beginning thus avoiding the buggy package to hit testing.

I'm setting the severity to grave because the new GTK3 gvim, which is the
default alternative is not usable at all. Until a workaround is provided I think
this is the right severity.

Note for users hitting this bug:
# aptitude install vim-gtk
...
# update-alternatives --config gvim
There are 2 choices for the alternative gvim (providing /usr/bin/gvim).

  Selection    Path               Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/vim.gtk3   50        auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/vim.gtk    50        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/vim.gtk3   50        manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 1
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.gtk to provide /usr/bin/gvim (gvim) in
manual mode

This will allow you to continue enjoying the ViM experience.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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