On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:03, Christian Biere wrote:
> David H. Gutteridge wrote:
>
> There hasn't been any release of gftp since 2005. So there's little hope
> any of the unresolved bugs gets fixed any time soon.
>
> > I never bothered PRing it upstream, but if someone was to do so, they
> > might want to point out that this problem can (presumably) be
> > duplicated on other OSes like Linux by enabling glib2's
> > G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES macro, which makes glib2 handle these excess calls
> > like NetBSD does.
>
> It has been reported here:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373411

Perhaps this info and the environment variable work-around could be added to 
the package install message.