[arch-dev-public] Xfce 4.8pre1 to testing?

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Wed Nov 10 22:03:33 CET 2010


On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:56:28 +0100, Andreas Radke <a.radke at 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


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