Forward-port a GtkAdjustment compatibility fix

We reverted GtkAdjustment to its traditional behaviour wrt. to
clamping in 2.14.3, but the fix was lost between 2.14 and 2.16.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/README.in b/README.in
index 2bc3209a91..9f8198bcdf 100644
--- a/README.in
+++ b/README.in
@@ -69,11 +69,15 @@ Release notes for 2.14
   to GTK_SENSITIVITY_ON, so that the button is always sensitive or
   GTK_SENSITIVITY_OFF to make it insensitive respectively.
 
-* GtkAdjustment now enforces that values are restricted to the
-  range [lower, upper - page_size]. This has always been the documented
-  behaviour, and the recommended practice is to set page_size to 0
-  when using adjustments for simple scalar values, like in a slider
-  or spin button. 
+* In the early 2.14.x releases, GtkAdjustment was changed to enforce 
+  that values are restricted to the range [lower, upper - page_size]. 
+  This has always been the documented behaviour, and the recommended 
+  practice is to set page_size to 0 when using adjustments for simple 
+  scalar values, like in a slider or spin button.
+  Due to the large number of applications that are affected by this
+  change, the behaviour has been reverted to the old behaviour in
+  2.14.3, with an explicit warning that this change will be 
+  reintroduced in 2.90. 
 
 * gdk-pixbuf will use GIO for mime type detection if possible. For
   this to work, shared-mime-info needs to be installed and XDG_DATA_DIRS