The breakage caused by the gtk2 update has caused me a hassle during the last week, and I can't figure out 1) why gtk2 is making changes that break other programs and 2) why gtk2- 2.10.8-1.fc6 is not removed from the Fedora update servers.
As noted in this list and in Fedora-testing, gtk2 2.10.8 breaks drag and drop in Thunderbird email (and Seamonkey and Firefox, AFAIK), and I keep having to remove the new gtk2 on my systems and install the last working version, which was
gtk2-2.10.4-10.fc6.i386.rpm
The Thunderbird update released yesterday does not correct the drag and drop problem for individual email items (at least on my systems), although it does correct it for groups of selected emails.
Aren't fundamental changes in the API for libraries like gtk2 supposed to be reserved for major releases, such as FC7?
If using Fedora Updates makes me a "beta tester", I would appreciate some kind of a announcement from the FC team.
This makes me think that Fedora should create a "security" category of updates so that we can just install the vital RPMs, and skip whatever testing is going on in gtk2 or other packages.
Paul Johnson wrote:
The breakage caused by the gtk2 update has caused me a hassle during the last week, and I can't figure out 1) why gtk2 is making changes that break other programs and 2) why gtk2- 2.10.8-1.fc6 is not removed from the Fedora update servers.
AIUI, the real bug is in Thunderbird so that's where the real fix needs to be done.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367203 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222349
As noted in this list and in Fedora-testing, gtk2 2.10.8 breaks drag and drop in Thunderbird email (and Seamonkey and Firefox, AFAIK), and I keep having to remove the new gtk2 on my systems and install the last working version, which was
gtk2-2.10.4-10.fc6.i386.rpm
You can add gtk2* to the excludes line in yum.conf if you want to avoid each update pulling it back in.
The Thunderbird update released yesterday does not correct the drag and drop problem for individual email items (at least on my systems), although it does correct it for groups of selected emails.
Which update is that? I don't see any new Thunderbird updates at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/ (nor in the testing repo either). Perhaps I'm just being dense or maybe the web interface is not up to date. The latest Thunderbird I can find is thunderbird-1.5.0.9-2.fc6.i386, dated 20-Dec-2006 17:56.
Aren't fundamental changes in the API for libraries like gtk2 supposed to be reserved for major releases, such as FC7?
I don't know that there was a fundamental API change in gtk here. I think it was just a bug fix that exposed a bug in several of the Mozilla products.
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