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[Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxx>]

A BIG FAT WARNING ABOUT PARALLEL VTE 0.36/0.38 INSTALLS VS BRAIN-DAMAGED
PYTHON GIR:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114379 (especially comment
9)

Summary: Just by installing vte-0.38 (next to the already installed
vte-0.36), python apps that happily used 0.36 before will now try to
include 0.38 instead and hence break big time.

All the python code using vte requires to be ported to vte-0.38 (library
version 2.91), or have an explicit version requirement to 0.36
(actually: library version 2.90).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132700

Title:
  gnome-terminal >= 3.7 requires sourcing of vte.sh login script

Status in GNOME Terminal:
  Won't Fix
Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  As of gnome-terminal 3.7.0, it is required to add the following to
  PS1 to get the usual behaviour where a new terminal opens with the
  current working directory of the terminal you activated it from.

  export PS1='\[$(__vte_ps1)\]'$PS1

  gnome-terminal devs suggest to put this in .bashrc, however since this
  basically causes a regression, it would make sense to deal with it at
  a distro level and perhaps include it in the system bash scripts or
  similar.

  The actual change was made in libvte so this may potentially affect
  any application that uses that library.

  As a side note: __vte_ps1() is provided by /etc/profile.d/vte.sh,
  which is installed by libvte, however atleast on my system this script
  is not getting sourced at login for some reason.

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