[arch-dev-public] I think we're ready for GNOME 3.8 in [testing]

[Ionut Biru]

On 04/09/2013 10:52 PM, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Jan Alexander Steffens
> <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Jan Alexander Steffens
>> <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 08.04.2013 13:28 schrieb "Balló György" <ballogyor at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> 1. I think it would better to move the following packages and their
>>>> dependencies to [staging] first, and create a todo list for the necessary
>>>> rebuilds:
>>>> - evolution-data-server
>>>> - gnome-desktop
>>>> - js/js185
>>>> - libgee/libgee06
>>>> - libtracker-sparql
>>>
>>> Our repository hierarchy doesn't allow that. [gnome-unstable] and [staging]
>>> do not interact. Todo list is a good idea, though.
>>
>> I'm going to move all of [gnome-unstable] to [staging] now, so we can
>> do the rebuilds.
> 
> Current problems:
> 
> Cinnamon incompatible; would need a lot of patching. I think the
> decision was to remove it until upstream catches up. GNOME 3.8 also
> provides "classic" mode now, which may appease some people. Alexandre?
> Packages: cinnamon, cinnamon-screensaver, cinnamon-control-center, muffin, nemo
> 

I hope that this packages are not blocking gnome 3.8.
If they do not work now, they should be dropped.

Also, I don't even understand why we have this fork in our repos.


> gnome-phone-manager incompatible. I think this thing is legacy anyway.
> Probably gets removed. JGC?
> 
> ubuntuone-client-gnome incompatible. Seems the GSD plugin needs
> patching. György?
> See https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=5149940c0a51b30e7c947e4800ded3648545ce97
> 


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Ionuț

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