[Bug 20776] New: Work out what to do about 16-bit types

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20776

           Summary: Work out what to do about 16-bit types
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: medium
         Component: telepathy-spec
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk


dbus-glib is unable to emit 16-bit integers, so we can't comply with
telepathy-spec in telepathy-glib. In practice, this means that our D-Bus API
has never been what we claim, which is likely to cause problems for
telepathy-qt4 (QtDBus is pickier about types).

Even if this is fixed in dbus-glib, using that fact would be an ABI break in
telepathy-glib.

One possible solution is to declare that the API we implement in practice is
the official one (by turning all our 16-bit integers 32 bits long), causing an
ABI break in telepathy-qt4 (which is not yet considered stable anyway). This
branch implements that, although it'll need updates for the current spec:

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/smcv/telepathy-spec-smcv.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/16bit


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