[Pkg-gtk2-perl-maintainers] Bug#473031: Bug#473031: libgtk2-perl: depend on libgtk compiled against

[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt]

Kevin Ryde <user42 at zip.com.au> writes:
> I upgraded libgtk2-perl but still had a slightly older libgtk2.0-0
> installed.  With a simple "use Gtk2" I got a warning printed
>
>     *** This build of Gtk2 was compiled with gtk+ 2.12.9, but is
>         currently running with 2.12.1, which is too old.  We'll
>         continue, but expect problems!
>
> It'd be nice if libgtk2-perl dragged in a new enough library to avoid
> that.
>
> (The message is from Gtk2.xs BOOT I think.  Perhaps it's overly cautious
> to worry between micro version numbers, but if the code does it then
> it'd be good for the package depends to reflect it.)

The solution in this case will be to patch out the version check. The
dependencies of the final dep are computed by dpkg-shlibdeps and *will*
be correct. Gtk2 is in this case trying to help users of packaging
systems which don't have such a strict dep system, which makes no sense
for Debian.

Marc
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