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

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Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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.

AIUI, the real bug is in Thunderbird so that's where the real fix
needs to be done.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367203 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222349

> 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

You can add gtk2* to the excludes line in yum.conf if you want to
avoid each update pulling it back in.

> 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.

Which update is that?  I don't see any new Thunderbird updates at
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/
(nor in the testing repo either).  Perhaps I'm just being dense or
maybe the web interface is not up to date.  The latest Thunderbird I
can find is thunderbird-1.5.0.9-2.fc6.i386, dated 20-Dec-2006 17:56.

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

I don't know that there was a fundamental API change in gtk here.  I
think it was just a bug fix that exposed a bug in several of the
Mozilla products.

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