Bug#411012: compiz 0.3.x no longer needs libmetacity conflict

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:28 +1100, Vincent Ho wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:23:43AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > Can you run gtk-window-decorator built against libmetacity0 >= 1:2.15.21
> > with an older version, or vice versa?
> 
> That's a good question, I haven't tried it.  I will say that my rebuild
> of 0.3.6-1 still depends only on libmetacity0 >= 1:2.14 so at least the
> shlibs haven't changed.  

That's probably because nobody reported the problem to the metacity
maintainers yet, or because it wouldn't help for a backwards
incompatible change anyway.

> I don't have a machine running just the GNOME
> 2.14 from unstable to test though, only the 2.16 from experimental.

You could download an older version manually, unpack it with dpkg-deb
and make gtk-window-decorator pick it up with LD_LIBRARY_PATH (verify
with ldd).


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