Bug#481457: python-gtk2: 2.12.1-2 breaks matplotlib and likely other apps as well

[Manuel Metz]

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Manuel Metz wrote:
>> Hi Dmitry,
>>
>>    same problem for me here when upgrading to 2.12.1-5 :-( I don't know 
>> who's going to read this any longer, as this bug-report has been marked 
>> resolved. I reported a new bug to inform the maintainers that the bug 
>> re-appeared (#484654) with 2.12.1-5. According to Josselin Mouette: 
>> "[...] you should understand that it [the patch] is not causing the 
>> problem, but that it is a part of the solution."
>>
>> ... strange kind of solution to me ...
> 
> Did you read his entire mail???
> 
> """
> Now it is obvious that the fix is not enough for meld, and we will try
> other changes suggested by upstream to fix that, but please refrain from
> opening new bugs if you don't have useful information to tell us.
> """
> 
> Cheers,
> Emilio
> 

Hi Emilio,

well yes, I did. I don't know/work with "meld". So, it might be that 
there is more that causes trouble with this software, which I can not 
know of (but according to the bug reports the bug was resolved in 
2.12.1-4, wasn't it ?).
   I was reporting the other bug because the very simple example did not 
work. I AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP TO IMPROVE Debian, but _excuse me_, I 
can not understand why to call a patch "part of the solution" if it 
causes a problem that was NOT apparent before. And I have not seen any 
other bug-report that is solved by this patch. So for me, this solution 
caused a problem, which I was reporting.
   There might be, of course, another problem which has not not been 
reported, and the patch might be part of that other problem - that I can 
not know since it was not talked about. But how can it be a solution to 
the problem I was reporting, when the former package worked fine ???

Please excuse my lack of understanding on that problem.

Manuel