On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 11:31 +0200, Piotr Pokora wrote: > On 23.10.2010 19:44, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > >> Without this release, any derived application or library breaks to build > >> with GObject Introspection enabled. > > > > Which of the fixes mentioned in upstream's changelog does the above > > refer to? > > * libgda/gda-debug-macros.h, libgda/gda-transaction-status.c: Removed > internal debug macros
Both of those changes are to code which is in "#ifdef GDA_DEBUG" blocks. Surely not everything builds with GDA_DEBUG turned on? > > (and if it's a critical bug, why is it not at least mentioned in the > > package's changelog and/or filed in the BTS?) > > This bug is critical for libraries or application which have to be built > with GObject Introspection. Currently there's (at least) anjuta and glom > packages which depend on libgda, but do not use GIR. [...] > Besides, many developers who build applications on top of libgda > complains about this library, not being up to date in available official > repositories. Libgda is the only one, open source library which provides > common access to databases, and thus should be available with minimal > amount of bugs. "People will complain if its out of date" is not a valid reason for a freeze exception. Besides, if upstream release 4.0.13 in a little while, why won't people just complain about Squeeze not including that instead? Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
