Debian is a bit broken, again...

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

Subsurface on Debian report:

Dirk introduced a couple of small changes in commit:
3b7d68c091ae45b5de0a
but apparently the GTimeZone related methods are post GLib 2.26, while
the latest stable for Debian is GLib 2.24:

the issue itself isn't big, but we've been doing silly workaround, for
stuff like that _all over the place_ (i.e. so that there are no issues
on older versions).
most of that have been triggered by that Debian 6.0.4 i have installed here.

today i did  a "aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade", but not much
happened in terms of packages of our interest.

so this is what i got from their website:

Package libglib2.0-0
squeeze (stable) (libs): The GLib library of C routines
2.24.2-1: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips
mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
wheezy (testing) (libs): GLib library of C routines
2.33.12+really2.32.4-3: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64
kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
sid (unstable) (libs): GLib library of C routines
2.33.12+really2.32.4-5: alpha amd64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 ia64
kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
sparc64

the other major PITA of course is GTK itself:

Package libgtk2.0-0
squeeze (stable) (libs): The GTK+ graphical user interface library
2.20.1-2: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips
mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
wheezy (testing) (libs): GTK+ graphical user interface library
2.24.10-2: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386
mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
sid (unstable) (libs): GTK+ graphical user interface library
2.24.10-2: alpha amd64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64
kfreebsd-i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc sparc64

forcing users to upgrade packages manually is a option, but they can
get into trouble with that.

all that is a bit sad of course, given debian is supposedly in top5
most used distros.
..what doesn't make any sense _at all_ is that Windows is more up to
date, in terms of "stable" than Debian for the Gnome packages...

lubomir
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