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

Ionuț Bîru ibiru at archlinux.org
Wed Nov 10 22:17:22 CET 2010


On 11/10/2010 11:03 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> 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.
>

what about using  gnome-unstable directly? I don't intend to use this 
repo in the near future

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Ionuț


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