[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#677787: Bug#677787: gtk2-engines-xfce: Please add multiarch support

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam., 2012-06-16 at 22:34 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On sam., 2012-06-16 at 20:50 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> Package: gtk2-engines-xfce
> >> Version: 2.8.1-3
> >> Severity: normal
> >> 
> >> Hello:
> >> 
> >> Please make this package compatible with multiarch, as described at
> >> <http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation>.
> >> 
> >> More info: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/MultiArch
> >> 
> > Could you elaborate on why it is really useful to convert a leaf package
> > few days before the freeze? Not that I am fundamentally against that but
> > I don't think I'll really have the time to look at it before the freeze
> > and I don't think it's really useful either, unless you can provide a
> > very specific use case :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > -- 
> > Yves-Alexis
> 
> Ia32-libs-gtk included it, which means some 32bit application must have
> needed it at some time. The multiarch ia32-libs-gtk package therefore
> depends on gtk2-engines-xfce. Unfortunately we didn't keep a log of why
> each packages was added to ia32-libs-gtk.

I wasn't even aware of that. I agree that if it was useful in
ia32-libs-gtk then it'll be useful to be multi-archified.
> 
> From the package description and reverse depends it looks like it would
> be possible to silently drop the depends on gtk2-engines-xfce, if you
> agree. I can't think of anything that would depend on it via
> ia32-libs-gtk.
> 

The bug seems to be
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504137 

Basically when you use a 32bit Gtk application it'll still try to use
the theme you use for the whole desktop, and thus the relevant engine.
I'm not sure if that applies to multiarch though.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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