Code review comment for lp://qastaging/~robru/bzr-dbus/glib

No, if you did it in a PPA, that would only fix it on your system (and on the systems of whoever else is subscribed to the PPA, if any). To fix it in ubuntu there's an official packaging branch somewhere, I'm just not sure exactly where at the moment.

I would guess that ubuntu:bzr-dbus would be the official packaging branch, but that branch seems to have the correct dependency on python-gi:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/bzr-dbus/raring/view/head:/debian/control

So I can only guess that the problem arises from something you're specifically doing on your system? I recall you had mentioned using lucid, so that could be the source of the conflict.

If that's the case, then my other mp with the little API wrapper trick might actually be the best solution, as it provides a uniform API regardless of which version of glib is being used, allowing for maximum versatility.