Re: [Synaptic-devel] Bugfix release 0.55.1

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Michael Vogt wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:00:34AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > > I uploaded the bugfix release 0.55.1 of synaptic. It contains no
> > > string changes from 0.55 and fix some small problem like a missing
> > > glade file. It also has a updated japanese translation (thanks to
> > > Daisuke SUZUKI).
> > 
> > Hmm, both 0.55 and 0.55.1 have problems on systems with GTK-2.2.x (RHEL 3
> > for example): the toolbar fails to show up at all, no matter what toolbar
> > mode is selected and rm -rf ~/.synaptic doesn't help either.
> 
> Yeah, sorry for not updating configure.in. The latest synaptic need
> gtk-2.4 because of the new widgets used in the download dialog. It
> also needs a updated libglade.

Ok. Just didn't know whether it was intentional or not because of the 
missing configure-check. There are quite a few places in the code with 
"#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,2,0)" stuff which can now be cleaned out :)

> 
> > There's quite a bit of libglade warnings and such on startup:
> [..]
> 
> See above. 
> 
> Is RHEL3 the latest RHEL? And it ships with gtk2.2? 

Yup, 3 is the latest version and has gtk 2.2, RHEL 4 is supposed to come 
out sometime in Q1/2005.

>  
> > On FC2 (with GTK 2.4.13) the toolbar does show up but changing the various 
> > modes has no effect except that "Hide" works, otherwise the toolbar 
> > stays in "Text below icons" mode no matter what was selected. 
> 
> Yes, this is another incompatability between glade and gtk. I opened a
> bugzilla.gnome.org bug about it (#157215). The bottom line is: "we
> hope to fix it for gnome 2.10" (which will be released in ~5 months). 

Ok.

> 
> The best thing to do right now is probably ship with synaptic 0.53.3
> for gtk2.2 based distributions. It should be pretty solid too (it will
> be shiped with debian/sarge).

No problem with that, 0.53 is just fine. People running RHEL or derivates 
don't always want the latest bleeding edge versions anyway :)

> 
> 0.55.x is more unstable as we moved to a new glade/libglade
> version. I already put 0.55.3 online at:
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/synaptic/synaptic-0.55.3.tar.gz
> 
> > Oh and the above assertion failure about gtk_widget_hide is present
> > on FC2 as well, otherwise no warnings or such.
> 
> This should be trivial to fix once I get my hands on a RPM based
> system again :)

Seems to be harmless anyway so not a big deal...

        - Panu -