Hi Simon, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> (2017-01-21): > Control: tags 847366 + patch > > On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 at 17:45:56 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Upstream say this is the wrong answer. Using Gtk without GL is *meant* > > to work - the problem is that one of the initialization calls is > > unconditional (upstream: > > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775279>) and will abort > > if there is no GLX library available. > > Patch attached, also in pkg-gnome svn, and seems to work fine (tested > with gtk3-demo in a chroot with no Recommends installed, and Xephyr > outside). > > debian-installer developers: assuming you don't want a libgl1-udeb, > you will need either this fix applied to gtk+3.0, or GDK_GL=disable > in the environment whenever you run GTK apps. Either one should work. This is great news! I was thinking about gtk2 vs. gtk3 just a few days ago (a cron told me libgtk-3-0-udeb was installable again), and was a bit annoyed with our recurring inability to move towards gtk3 without the GL thing fixed (indeed, pulling libgl in d-i seemed a bit heavy…; and there were quite a bunch of unmet dependencies in the past; patches have existed for cdebconf + gtk3 for quite a while). Maybe we'll be able to handle this at the beginning of the stretch release cycle. :) KiBi.
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