Bug#694340: ping?

2013-01-26 Thread Neil Williams 
The chances of libgconf being rewritten to use GDBus any time soon seem
slim - and the chances of getting this kind of change into wheezy seems
equally slim. Has anything happened on this bug since the last comment
in November?

Overall, what's the status of this bug?

banshee itself has had numerous changes in experimental, including one
change which appears to be related to this bug:
banshee (2.3.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
...
 - bgo#659841: GnomeBackend: Be more robust against GConf failures (LP:
#854845)
...

and LP: #854845 is titled: Banshee.exe crashes a lot

What are the chances of this patch being isolated from the banshee
sources and introduced as an limited scope patch for unstable which can
then migrate into wheezy?

The git repository linked from the Debian PTS hasn't had any changes
for 7 months.:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cli-apps/packages/banshee.git;a=log
last change Mon, 4 Jun 2012 18:01:39 +


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Bug#694340: ping?

2013-01-26 Thread Josselin Mouette 
Hi Niel,

Le samedi 26 janvier 2013 à 10:54 +, Neil Williams a écrit : 
 The chances of libgconf being rewritten to use GDBus any time soon seem
 slim - and the chances of getting this kind of change into wheezy seems
 equally slim. Has anything happened on this bug since the last comment
 in November?
 
 Overall, what's the status of this bug?

I’m afraid we’re stuck in a dead-end here. If we add the
dbus_threads_init_default() call, we’re at risk of triggering other
crashes, even harder to debug, as mentioned by Ray Strode.

Since Banshee does not use dbus-glib in other places, we can however put
calls to this function in the thread that uses GConf, right before the
GConf initialisation. I don’t know how hard it would be.

If that can help, I can add a convenience function (a private API hidden
in #ifdef’s) to initialize GConf with this call. It’s a bit ugly but we
know for sure it won’t impact anything outside Banshee.

Cheers,
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