Re: gtk-engines photographed eating children

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Sean Middleditch">

> > ... but when themes move between differently-versioned source packages
> > that are delivered as separate binary packages, things break.
> 
> Maybe you should give a concrete example of packages (and their structure)
> that this happens for...

Was:

  gnome-themes 2.9.x -> gtk2-engines-mist 2.9.x
                        gtk2-engines-thinice 2.9.x

Now:

  gtk-engines 2.6.x -> gtk2-engines-mist 2.6.x
                       gtk2-engines-thinice 2.6.x

Limiting to two binary packages for simplicity's sake.

- Jeff

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