Thunar, error in libgobject (copy & paste bug)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 15:06:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:29:08 +0100, jEsuSdA 8) wrote:
>>El 08/11/15 a las 18:57, Heinz Diehl escribió:    
>>> The problem is most probably related to glib2, which impacts on
>>> Thunar.Users running glib2-2.44 don't have it, while those who
>>> have glib2-2.46 installed do (including me). Downgrading is
>>> not possible as this would require recompiling a lot of essential
>>> packages, namely systemd amongst others.      
>>
>>I can confirm that too.
>>
>>I tried to downgrade glib and was impossible.
>>
>>The problems started when I upgrade Debian glib packages.    
>
>You could copy the lib and test if it should work.
>
>The name should be libglib-2.0.so.0.44*.
>
>Do not change the links.
>
>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -log /usr/lib/libglib-2*
>lrwxrwxrwx 1      23 Oct 14 16:20 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so ->
>libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1      23 Oct 14
>16:20 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 -> libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1
>1102736 Oct 14 16:20 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.1
>
>Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soname. Not seldom users of
>user-centric distros maintain several versions of a lib. However, in
>this case it IMO is better to file a bug report upstream and to rant
>with the package maintainers, assumed you should use a so called stable
>release of a user-friendly distro.

Respl. you need to check against what Thunar is compiled to decide how
to handle it ;), but you anyway could provide both libs.