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Re: glib destabilization and ways forward



Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 12:56 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 08:11:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>>> I miss an analysis of what other packages are involved in this plan. If 
>>> only GnuCash is involved that'd make the lower ranked options more of an 
>>> option than if the number of affected packages is unknown or expected to 
>>> be large.
>> The number of affected packages is unknown.  AFAIK, prior to the bug being
>> filed on gnucash it was assumed to be zero.
> I thought Josselin said that there had been several other affected
> programs, and that changes had been made to the syntax to correspond.

The first version of the new input validation (included in GLib 2.12.5)
was only allowing characters from the freedesktop spec. This broke
gnomevfs and was later corrected (in GLib 2.12.6).

Marc
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