[Python-apps-team] Bug#764611: sonata: fails to launch since GLib upgrade to 2.42

[Javi Merino]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:36:08PM +0200, Dave wrote:
> I’m modifying the severity of the bug because sonata is no longer
> seriously broken.
> 
> Here is a quote from libgtk2.0-0 changelog which could help the
> maintainers of sonata:

Thanks for tracking this!  I've been very busy recently and didn't
have time to look at this.  I'll package the latest alpha for unstable
once jessie is released in the hopes that it'll be in a stable state
for jessie+1 and will make sure that this is fixed upstream.

Thanks again,
Javi

> "gtk+2.0 (2.24.25-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> (…)
> * New upstream release
> - tolerates incorrect use of gtk_main() after initializing threads with
> gtk_init() but before taking the lock with gdk_threads_enter(), which
> has historically worked on GNU systems because glibc's mutexes are more
> permissive than the new implementation in GLib 2.42
> (Closes: #758619, #763602, #763625, #763690, #763735, but the affected
> packages should still use Gdk's threading API properly)
> (…)
>  -- Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>  Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:33:05 +0100"
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