Why did gtk2 break Thunderbird? Please remove gtk2-2.10.8 from Updates Repositories

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The breakage caused by the gtk2 update has caused me a hassle during
the last week, and I can't figure out  1) why gtk2 is making changes
that break other programs and 2) why gtk2- 2.10.8-1.fc6 is not removed
from the Fedora update servers.

As noted in this list and in Fedora-testing, gtk2 2.10.8 breaks drag
and drop in Thunderbird email (and Seamonkey and Firefox, AFAIK), and
I keep having to remove the new gtk2 on my systems and install the
last working version, which was

gtk2-2.10.4-10.fc6.i386.rpm

The Thunderbird update released yesterday does not correct the drag
and drop problem for individual email items (at least on my systems),
although it does correct it for groups of selected emails.

Aren't fundamental changes in the API for libraries like gtk2 supposed
to be reserved for major releases, such as FC7?

If using Fedora Updates makes me a "beta tester", I would appreciate
some kind of a announcement from the FC team.

This makes me think that Fedora should create a "security" category of
updates so that we can just install the vital RPMs, and skip whatever
testing is going on in gtk2 or other packages.

--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas


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