HI,

On  Fr 03 Jun 2016 16:00:08 CEST, Santiago Vila wrote:

> I said:
>
>> Depends: mate-desktop-common (>= 1.14.1)
>
> Or even better:
>
> Use a >= clause in libmate-desktop-2-17.shlibs.
>
> Currently this is just:
>
> libmate-desktop-2 17 libmate-desktop-2-17
>
> which is odd, because mate-terminal has this in the control file:
>
>    libmate-desktop-dev (>= 1.14)
>
> but the shlibs file does not ensure that the resulting dependency
> (via dpkg-shlibdsp) is also >= 1.14 on libmate-desktop-2-17.
>
>
> I would call this the real underlying bug in this little mess, not Britney.

One issue actually is that .symbols did not really change that much  
for all *mate* packages. Only the compiled against GTK version changed.

Unfortunately, this won't occur again until the GTK3 -> GTK4 switch  
over. But we should indeed prepare for that.

Mike

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