Re: Build problem Gtk2-1.037

[Jim Donoghue <jim smithy com>]

On Monday 01 March 2004 10:49, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> we patch quite a lot of packages b/c of bugs, missing features,
> security issues, ...
>
> one can manually overwrite these with upstream releases and if he
> shots itself in the foot, it's his problem.
> this can happen with any package (kernel, glibc, kde, ...).
>
> packaging exists for some good reason.
>
> sane upgrade is to update package, not to gratuitously overwriting it
> with manuall tarball rebuild.

I would have done it the 'right' way if I had found newer packages that had 
what I need. I made the mistake and assumed that Gtk2-perl was Gtk2-perl, and 
a newer version would be backward-compatible, unless it was a major upgrade 
(such as Gtk1 -> Gtk2).

Jim