This is a case of "just don't do that", I'm afraid. GTK 2 is very old and hasn't been maintained for like 5 years. At the time when gobject introspection came up we already had GTK 3, so any introspection stuff which happens to work with GTK 2 is pure luck.
** Information type changed from Private to Public ** Changed in: pygobject (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409193 Title: pygtkcompat crashes when using gtk2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pygobject/+bug/1409193/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs