FTBFS because of private GtkEntry fields

[Michael Terry]

Binary package hint: nip2

nip2 fails to build against GTK+ 2.17.x because they changed the names of some private GtkEntry fields from n_bytes and text_size to x_n_bytes and x_text_size. I guess they are getting more serious about making those private. :)

Upstream doesn't look like they've addressed this yet. A patch will be needed, but it's not a trivial change. nip2 has a subclass of GtkEntry and they use n_bytes and text_size quite a bit. These private fields refer to string size in bytes, but the public API is all about number of characters.

[John Cupitt (jcupitt)]

Hi, I'm the upstream maintainer. We've just fixed this in SVN head, so the next stable version should work with gtk+ 2.17+. This new version ought to be done in time for 10.04, hopefully.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nip2 - 7.20.6-1ubuntu1

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nip2 (7.20.6-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian testing (LP: #501104), remaining changes:
    - debian/control: Also Recommend abrowser
  * Rebuild for libmagick{core,wand}1 -> libmagick{core,wand}2
    transition (LP: #454726).
  * This upstream version builds against new GTK+ (LP: #407339).
 -- Ilya Barygin <email address hidden> Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:52:15 +0300