I understand the upstream argument. (Been there, done that.) The GTK
folk did not *intend* to break compatibility (at least in a theoretic
sense), but did in fact break compatibility (in an actual sense). Their
intent was to introduce useful new behaviors into a release meant to
preserve old behaviors. Nothing wrong with that. But when it goes wrong,
and you *break* applications for thousands of users, you fix it.

Pragmatism wins, or should. Sort of a variant on "the customer is always
right" meme. Writing software is not a theoretic exercise. Practical
considerations trump.

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Buttons in Eclipse not working correctly with GTK+ 2.18.1-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442078
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