Bug 558788

Summary:	Rebase gtk2 to 2.12
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	info <info>
Component:	gtk2	Assignee:	Benjamin Otte <otte>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.5	CC:	info, timothy.ty.lee
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OS:	Linux
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Description info@kobaltwit.be 2010-01-26 13:00:08 UTC

Description of problem:
RHEL ships with gtk2 version 2.10.4. The current gtk2 stable release is 2.18.x. RHEL doesn't need to be this up to date, but rebasing to 2.12 would be very useful.

This request comes in the light of the upcoming Gnome 3.0 (or 2.30) in which a number of deprecated libraries and api's will be removed. For some of these the replacement library or api has only appeared in gtk2 v2.12. For example GtkTooltips will be removed and is replaced with GtkTooltip. The latter only appears in gtk2 v 2.12.

Rebasing to 2.12+ would make it easier for gnome developers to build applications that work both on RHEL and on distributions that will ship with gnome 3.0 (or 2.30).

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2014-03-07 13:39:16 UTC

This bug/component is not included in scope for RHEL-5.11.0 which is the last RHEL5 minor release. This Bugzilla will soon be CLOSED as WONTFIX (at the end of RHEL5.11 development phase (Apr 22, 2014)). Please contact your account manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2014-06-02 13:07:40 UTC

Thank you for submitting this request for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We've carefully evaluated the request, but are unable to include it in RHEL5 stream. If the issue is critical for your business, please provide additional business justification through the appropriate support channels (https://access.redhat.com/site/support).

Comment 5 info@kobaltwit.be 2014-06-16 11:07:29 UTC

Just adding a comment to clear the needinfo flag which continues to trigger nag mails to urge me to add the requested info.