> Le jeudi 05 juin 2008 à 17:33 +0200, Manuel Metz a écrit : >> well yes, I did. I don't know/work with "meld". So, it might be that >> there is more that causes trouble with this software, which I can not >> know of (but according to the bug reports the bug was resolved in >> 2.12.1-4, wasn't it ?). > > No, it was not. The problem is not caused by the patch itself, but by > the introduction of wakeupfd in pygtk, which is in use since python2.5 > 2.5.2-5. > >> I was reporting the other bug because the very simple example did not >> work. I AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP TO IMPROVE Debian, but _excuse me_, I >> can not understand why to call a patch "part of the solution" if it >> causes a problem that was NOT apparent before. And I have not seen any >> other bug-report that is solved by this patch. So for me, this solution >> caused a problem, which I was reporting. >> There might be, of course, another problem which has not not been >> reported, and the patch might be part of that other problem - that I can >> not know since it was not talked about. But how can it be a solution to >> the problem I was reporting, when the former package worked fine ??? > > There are applications that lock without the patch. Some lock with this > patch, and some lock with the new version that has been proposed by > upstream. The wakeupfd stuff is dealing with the main loop's internals, > and it is hard to understand the implications - Iâm pretty sure I > donât > understand half of them.
Hi, first thanks for the info - I think I understand a bit better now what's going on. > In all cases, I fail to see how you can call the 2.12.1-4 version > âworkingâ, since the memory corruption bug causes crashes in most > pygtk > applications with this version. Well, that's just how it was for _me_ on _my_ machine. I had/have no problems with 2.12.1-4 until now and that's also why I switched back to this version and call it "working". It's the first time now that I read about these "memory corruption problems", and when I look into the bugreports of those meld and other reports, they were _all_ marked as "Fixed in version 2.12.1-4" ... !? Cheers, Manuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]