Re: gnome 2.8.1 release

[Jean Noel Cordenner <jean-noel cordenner bull net>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Kjartan Maraas wrote:

> > > I've downloaded gnome 2.8.1 source rpm and  noticed
> > > several differences  on gnome2-user-docs for instance
> > > which size was divided by 30 between 2.8.0 and 2.8.1
> > >
> > > gnome2-user-docs-2.8.0.tar.bz2      14-Sep-2004 06:30   29M
> > > gnome2-user-docs-2.8.1.tar.bz2      16-Oct-2004 18:19  1.0M
> >
> > After looking in the archive, it seems the translations have been
> > removed: only the C locale remains ...
> I just used the tarballs that were listed as the latest available at the
> time I did the release. Maybe someone from the docs team can elaborate
> on the removal of the translated versions?
>
> > > and also on libxklavier
> > > libxklavier-1.02.tar.bz2            13-May-2004 00:47  288K
> > > libxklavier-1.04.tar.bz2            23-Oct-2004 13:29   14
> >
> > 14 bytes ? You're right .. seems like a bad upload to me.
> Hmm, that looks really bad. Anyway, libxklavier is a dependency and not
> really part of the platform or desktop. It can be downloaded from
> freedesktop.org. I've fixed libxklavier and updated the md5sums now.
>
> > > Does anyone have some info about it? Is the 2.8.1 release
> > > reliable?
> >
> > Well .. no :)
> Besides these two issues I don't think there are any noteworthy
> problems, and if there are please bring them to my attention so I can
> fix them for the next point release which is scheduled for next month.

Thanks

Jean noel