Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 03:06 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 17:29 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 01:56 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Now, if you don't provide us with the necessary data, we won't be able > > > to fix the regression

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 08:44 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > For the sake of the upcoming release, I wonder how many files / users > are affected by this change? Is it really release-critical? If not, > would it not helpe if Thomas provides a script in the gnucash package > that adjusts the keys th

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 29 décembre 2006 à 08:44 +0100, Martin Schulze a écrit : > > > 2. Change glib to conform to the existing expectations of gnucash. > > > > This is what I'm proposing to do. I don't think allowing the space > > character does much harm, but I'm asking upstream nevertheless. > > For the

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 17:29 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 01:56 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Now, if you don't provide us with the necessary data, we won't be able > > > to fix the regression it introduces in gnucash. > > > >

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 17:29 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 01:56 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Now, if you don't provide us with the necessary data, we won't be able > > to fix the regression it introduces in gnucash. > > There are clearly two plausible sol

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 01:56 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Now, if you don't provide us with the necessary data, we won't be able > to fix the regression it introduces in gnucash. Here is a sample file; I suspect the offending character is the space, if I'm reading Marc Brockschmidt's regex righ

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 01:56 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Now, if you don't provide us with the necessary data, we won't be able > to fix the regression it introduces in gnucash. There are clearly two plausible solutions to the underlying problem: 1. Change gnucash to conform to the new behavi

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 01:41:17AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Sorry, but you don't make a soname bump just for the sake of > applications ignoring function semantics. Right. You also don't introduce regressions in an indeterminate number of other packages during a freeze just because those

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 16:46 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > What part of the freeze policy do you not understand? You uploaded two > new upstream versions which fix no Debian bugs *after* the freeze. Do you want me to report a Debian bug for each upstream issue? Or do you really be

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:18:01PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > 3) The change altered the syntax of the file by adding restrictions. It > is therefore a non-backwards-compatible change to the ABI, and therefore > it needs an so-name bump. No amount of adding this or that character > will ch

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 01:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > 1) The release team has asked us not to upload changes which are not > > destined for etch, and making gnucash work with the glib in unstable is > > therefore a low priority; > > The glib in unstable is destined for etch, whether you l

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 16:18 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > I don't think I asked for important bug fixes to be blocked outside > etch. On the other hand, the upload of 2.12.5 did not fix any bugs, > according to the changelog and the BTS. According to the upstream changelog it fixes

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 00:49 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 14:47 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > > Package: glib2.0 > > Version: 2.12.5-3 > > > > This version of glib (both 2.12.5-3 and 2.12.6-1) causes an important > > regression in gnucash, and therefore shou

Re: Bug#404888: glib2.0: cannot go into testing; causes gnucash regrsession

2006-12-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 14:47 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > Package: glib2.0 > Version: 2.12.5-3 > > This version of glib (both 2.12.5-3 and 2.12.6-1) causes an important > regression in gnucash, and therefore should not go into testing. > > See http://bugs.debian.org/404585. What i