Re: Kick libxklavier from the release set and make it an invalid dependency?

[Alexey Rusakov <ktirf users sf net>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hopefully the subject grabbed the right peoples' attention because
> I've gotten no response to
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-February/msg00176.html.
>  I discovered via bug 331413 that libxklavier has a version newer than
> the ones uploaded to http://download.gnome.org/sources/libxklavier. 
> This presents a problem because we can't use the newer version in the
> release set unless it's on gnome ftp.  If we get no newer versions
> then we're faced with build bugs that will never be fixed.  There are
> multiple possible solutions (I just picked the most likely to get a
> response one for the subject but it wouldn't be my first choice):
>
>  - Get the tarballs uploaded to gnome ftp
>  - Remove libxklavier, and make it a blessed external dependency
>  - Remove libxklavier from the desktop, and make any functionality
> depending on it only do so optionally and not compiled in by default
>
> Comments?
As far as I know, libxklavier is a freedesktop.org project nowadays, so I 
think the second solution is the most reasonable one.

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  Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov