On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Pauli <suok...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that sometimes gwibber generates multiple notifications for a
> single update. I quickly figured out that issue was dbus starting
> multiple gwibber-service instances because a race condition in service
> startup. When I looked around I saw some Ubuntu bug report having
> similar issues with their indicator. I don't know if there is any more
> issues that are caused by the race condition.
>
> I have made a proposed fix to gwibber code and dbu service configuration
> to avoid the race condition in startup. The fix is simple refactoring
> dbus interface to be under single service name that allows dbus to
> provide atomic single service startup functionality for gwibber-service.
>
> I checked upstream code that same bug still exists in the latest
> development version. But I could easily compile the latest version in
> Sid so I decided to first cook a patch for the debian package. I will
> today forward port my changes for upstream inclusion.
>
> Attached patch will require also changes to packaging because it reduces
> .service files to only two.
Thanks a lot. Can you redo patch against experimental package of
Gwibber? We really need to re-work on package as it has more
dependencies which are not in Debian yet.
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