Re: [REQUEST]: Hard Code Freeze Break request - GtkHTML

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le lundi 12 mars 2007 à 19:57 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy a écrit :
> Hi ,
> 
>  Sorry for this very-late bother but I just observed this patch left
> uncommitted at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401970.
> 
> The patch appears to modify the so names of the gtkhtml library as
> well as update the API version so as not to break gnucash.  This fix,
> I learn from the patch, does not introduce a binary incompatibility
> but merely reconciles an earlier change that had broken the ABI.
> It had been reviewed and approved for commit by the GtkHTML package
> maintainer, Srinivasa Ragavan, prior to the Hard Code freeze but was
> not included in the 3.13.92 release or committed to svn.
> 
> If this change is absorbed, the corresponding dependency in the
> Evolution package will also have to be updated.
> 
> I have been unable to reach Srinivasa Ragavan but from
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401970#c11,
> it appears this change needs to be in so as not to break gnucash (and
> other apps that depend on gtkhtml [1])
> 
> Is it OK for me to commit this change to GtkHTML, so I can test and
> then roll out the evolution tarballs ?

Approval 1 of 2.

> [1] I am not aware if any package other than evolution and gnucash
> depends on gtkhtml.

On my list, outside GNOME, I have :
balsa
evolution-jescs
gnomesword
gnotime


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