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pygobject package

PyGObject 2.28.3 breaks ABI

Bug #765398 reported by Johan Dahlin
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pygobject
Unknown
Unknown
pygobject (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt
Ubuntu ubuntu-11.04
Natty
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt
Ubuntu ubuntu-11.04

Bug Description

PyGObject earlier than 2.28.3 includes a change which breaks the ABI with previous bindings. It makes application using kiwi or sqlkit libraries broken in natty. pida, lottanzb, gazpacho, flumotion and stoq is a short list of affected applications.

Please update to 2.28.4 which should be pretty safe. In case it's considered unsafe, just apply this patch http://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/patch/?id=cc0e8423f36486d15f751bd3c14351edda28538d

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lp:ubuntu/natty/pygobject
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Johan Dahlin (jdahlin-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Upstream bug describing the rational is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646437

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Thanks Johan for pointing out. I read about it last night, but didn't file a bug about it yet.

Changed in pygobject (Ubuntu Natty):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.04
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Unfortunately the release of pygobject 2.28.4 was a bit premature, as it removed the workaround for the broken GLib.Variant.new_variant. This was only fixed in the yet unreleased g-i upstream git head, and not fixed at all in glib itself yet. Thus using the pygobject 2.28.4 release with the latest releases of glib and g-i is currently broken still.

I'll just cherrypick the patch for this then.

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in pygobject (Ubuntu Natty):
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pygobject - 2.28.3-1ubuntu1

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pygobject (2.28.3-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Add 00git-fix-abi-break.patch: Backport upstream commit cc0e8423 to
    restore ABI compatibility with previous versions, to unbreak metaclass
    hackery done in a lot of applications. Thanks to Johan Dahlin for pointing
    this out. (Note, we can't upgrade to 2.28.4 release yet, as this still
    needs a new g-i release first) (LP: #765398)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:03:33 +0200

Changed in pygobject (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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