Thu, 30 Mar 2006

Evolution and the new GLib in Debian testing

Last night, glib 2.8 and pango 1.12 entered testing, as a first step on the GNOME 2.14 quest. The bad news is that the fixed evolution & friends were not ready to go in as well, so now many etch users will be wondering why their evolution doesn't start up, or doesn't show any mail.

Until we manage to get a fixed evolution in testing, and it looks like it won't be trivial to get this done in the immediate future, Erich's recipe comes handy again:

My personal hero of the day is Gustavo Franco, for this email to debian-devel. He writes how to get your Gnome/Pango/Glib applications that don't work since yesterday's upgrade like evolution (#358071) working again:

$ G_SLICE=always-malloc evolution

And you should be able to read your email again.

Just FYI, and in case you missed it. :)

19:11 | [] | # | (comments: 2)

It looks like the alternative is to recompile the -1.1 packages of evolution (and also gtkhtml, cause there's another bug there) recently uploaded in NMU in unstable, on testing.

My 2 cents.

Posted by Olivier Berger at Thu Mar 30 21:32:44 2006

Yup, that's our fallback if the normal way doesn't end up working in the next few days. We'll see.

Posted by Jordi at Fri Mar 31 09:52:43 2006