Re: desktop-devel-list Digest, Vol 14, Issue 31

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

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>   1. new gnome-common release? (Christian Persch)
>   2. Re: new gnome-common release? (Bastien Nocera)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:52:57 +0200
> From: Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
> Subject: new gnome-common release?
> To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Cc: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>
> Message-ID: <1119192777 9211 4 camel localhost localdomain>
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> Hi,
>
> the latest gnome-common release is 2.8.0, but cvs contains some
> important fixes. gnome-common/MAINTAINERS lists "Malcolm Tredinnick
> <malcolm commsecure com au>" as the maintainer, but he hasn't made a
> commit to it in more than a year. Is he still the maintainer, or if not,
> who is authorised to make a new release?
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> Regards,
> 	Christian
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:32:00 +0100
> From: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> Subject: Re: new gnome-common release?
> To: Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
> Cc: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>,	Desktop Hackers
> 	<desktop-devel-list gnome org>
> Message-ID: <1119195121 9918 8 camel wyatt hadess net>
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> Hey Christian,
>
> On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 16:52 +0200, Christian Persch wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > the latest gnome-common release is 2.8.0, but cvs contains some
> > important fixes. gnome-common/MAINTAINERS lists "Malcolm Tredinnick
> > <malcolm commsecure com au>" as the maintainer, but he hasn't made a
> > commit to it in more than a year. Is he still the maintainer, or if not,
> > who is authorised to make a new release?
> >    
>
> I think most people agree that gnome-common isn't something that should
> be packaged (at least that's true for Fedora/Red Hat distros), as gnome-
> common is a development tool, to build from CVS. I think it should be
> removed altogether from the FTP site, so as not to create confusion.
>  
I disagree.  There are folks who still prefer to build from tarballs.  
And for many distros, tarballs are the preferred base for creating RPMs, 
so as long as gnome-common is required for a build, there should be 
releases for it IMO.

Bill

> If somebody is going to compile a program from CVS, they might as well
> check out gnome-common at the same time.
>
> Cheers
>
> ---
> Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
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