[arch-dev-public] Xfce 4.8pre1 to testing?
New Xfce 4.8pre1 release is out for testing. It requires some important packaging changes. I'm running it on my two systems at home and it's in a usable state. But as expected there are some issues with power management und panel plugins. Because I need user feedback I'd like to bring it early straight to testing. I don't like to miss our devtools and don't want to create a new Xfce4-unstable repo. I don't need it that often like the gnome packagers do. Xfce packages in testing wouldn't harm anything else. The final release is expected for Jan. 16th 2011. -Andy
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:56:28 +0100, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
New Xfce 4.8pre1 release is out for testing. It requires some important packaging changes. I'm running it on my two systems at home and it's in a usable state.
But as expected there are some issues with power management und panel plugins. Because I need user feedback I'd like to bring it early straight to testing. I don't like to miss our devtools and don't want to create a new Xfce4-unstable repo. I don't need it that often like the gnome packagers do.
Xfce packages in testing wouldn't harm anything else. The final release is expected for Jan. 16th 2011.
-Andy
I'd prefer to only have candidates for core/extra in testing. Especially if it should stay there for months. Therefore please go with an unstable repo. Having these packages in testing makes it less attractive/usable for users and more important any rebuilds that cover xfce packages will be a pain. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
Am Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:03:33 +0100 schrieb Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
I'd prefer to only have candidates for core/extra in testing. Especially if it should stay there for months. Therefore please go with an unstable repo. Having these packages in testing makes it less attractive/usable for users and more important any rebuilds that cover xfce packages will be a pain.
There won't be RCs. Just pre1-pre3 and then the final release. Xfce has mainly deps to gtk2/glib and itself not to one of the .so bumping known libs. I don't expect a lib .so bump until the release. -Andy
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:16:43 +0100, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Am Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:03:33 +0100 schrieb Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
I'd prefer to only have candidates for core/extra in testing. Especially if it should stay there for months. Therefore please go with an unstable repo. Having these packages in testing makes it less attractive/usable for users and more important any rebuilds that cover xfce packages will be a pain.
There won't be RCs. Just pre1-pre3 and then the final release.
By candidates I meant packages that you also would have moved directly to core/extra; not what upstream calls rcs.
Xfce has mainly deps to gtk2/glib and itself not to one of the .so bumping known libs. I don't expect a lib .so bump until the release.
You cannot know what happens till January. And its still a prerelease that is not meant for every day use I guess. I don't think such package should go to testing. Not breaking testing on purpose was e.g. the point of introducing staging. Don't get me wrong, it's nice you'd like to provide such packages, but if you just need a place to put them into don't abuse testing and just create a dedicated repo...it's not that hard and we could remove it next year when done. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
On 11/10/2010 11:03 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:56:28 +0100, Andreas Radke<a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
New Xfce 4.8pre1 release is out for testing. It requires some important packaging changes. I'm running it on my two systems at home and it's in a usable state.
But as expected there are some issues with power management und panel plugins. Because I need user feedback I'd like to bring it early straight to testing. I don't like to miss our devtools and don't want to create a new Xfce4-unstable repo. I don't need it that often like the gnome packagers do.
Xfce packages in testing wouldn't harm anything else. The final release is expected for Jan. 16th 2011.
-Andy
I'd prefer to only have candidates for core/extra in testing. Especially if it should stay there for months. Therefore please go with an unstable repo. Having these packages in testing makes it less attractive/usable for users and more important any rebuilds that cover xfce packages will be a pain.
what about using gnome-unstable directly? I don't intend to use this repo in the near future -- Ionuț
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Andreas Radke
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Ionuț Bîru
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Pierre Schmitz