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and subject line Bug#1059442: fixed in gitg 44-4
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regarding gitg: Commit dialog overrides Ctrl+Left/Right
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Package: gitg
Version: 41-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainers,
after upgrading to Bookworm I have noticed that Ctrl+Left/Right does not work
as expected in the commit dialog of gitg. Usually Ctrl+Left/Right moves the
cursor one word to the left or right, respectively. This is true for GUI text
boxes like the one in reportbug I am currently typing in but also terminal
applications etc. The version of gitg in Bookworm has added a commit message
history feature to the commit dialog that is navigated via said shortcuts,
unfortunately, and it drives me a little bit crazy.
This problem has been reported (1) and fixed (2) upstream by using
Alt+Page up/Page down. I have added the upstream patch to the bookworm branch
of my salsa fork of gitg (3). "debuild -b -uc -us" isn't working due to an
unrelated lintian error:
"E: gitg: library-not-linked-against-libc
[usr/lib/gitg/gitg/plugins/libdiff.so]"
But "fakeroot debian/rules binary" spat out a working .deb that seems to work
fine.
I believe this is a candidate for being backported to Bookworm as the source
change is tiny and the bug is a regression introduced by Bookworm. I am happy
to help if need be (but I am not a Debian maintainer).
KR
1: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gitg/-/issues/351
2:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gitg/-/commit/d768b107aef1944d945e73ecf14d74746338afe4
3:
https://salsa.debian.org/stefanct/gitg/-/commit/bdb80f0a76c789cdb3a78d5e4270f7d3daa4f67f
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable'), (89, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gitg depends on:
ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.14.10-1~deb12u1
ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.14.10-1~deb12u1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-4
ii gir1.2-peas-1.0 1.34.0-1+b1
ii git 1:2.39.2-1.1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 43.0-1
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u3
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-7
ii libdazzle-1.0-0 3.44.0-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1
ii libgee-0.8-2 0.20.6-1
ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.74.0-3
ii libgit2-glib-1.0-0 1.1.0-1+b1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2
ii libgspell-1-2 1.12.0-1+b2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.38-2~deb12u1
ii libgtksourceview-4-0 4.8.4-4
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.6.6-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.12+ds-1
ii libpeas-1.0-0 1.34.0-1+b1
ii libsecret-1-0 0.20.5-3
ii libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1
gitg recommends no packages.
gitg suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: gitg
Source-Version: 44-4
Done: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gitg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> (supplier of updated gitg package)
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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:50:14 -0500
Source: gitg
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 44-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Closes: 1059442
Changes:
gitg (44-4) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Jeremy Bícha ]
* Cherry-pick commit to fix Ctrl+Left/Right shortcuts (Closes: #1059442)
.
[ Simon McVittie ]
* d/gitg.lintian-overrides: Override a false positive
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