Re: GNOME 2.23.5 Released!

[Iain Nicol <iain thenicols net>]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:57:44 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008, à 16:04 -0300, Jonh Wendell a écrit :
>> Em Qua, 2008-07-23 às 20:23 +0200, Vincent Untz escreveu:
>> > GNOME 2.23.5 Development Release
>> > ================================
>> > 
>> > desktop  - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.23/2.23.5/NEWS
>> 
>> Hi, folks.
>> 
>> Why does this page show:
>> ========================================
>>  UPDATED: vino-2.23.5
>> ======================================== vino was updated without a
>> NEWS entry.

> Bug. The script is available at
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/releng/trunk/tools/release_set_scripts/
> release-news?view=log
Hi,

I'm not sure I would call this a bug in the script. Or if it is, it's a
design flaw: getting this to work here would require the script to work
by parsing only the latest NEWS file to extract the changes, as opposed
to working by diffing against the previous NEWS file.

What's happening is that there's tarball for for a vino-2.22.2 release on
the GNOME ftp servers. (I suppose) this is being used as the "old
version" for the NEWS file comparison. The problem is that the new 2.23.5
release modified the NEWS file from 2.22.1 instead of from 2.22.2.

As a result the diff being fed into sed looks like this:
> --- vino-2.22.2/NEWS	2008-05-26 14:20:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ vino-2.23.5/NEWS	2008-07-22 20:16:59.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -Vino 2.22.2
> +Vino 2.23.5
> @@ -3,0 +4,5 @@
> +  Features
> +
> +	+ New command-line tool, vino-passwd, which allows you to change
> +	vino password. Similar to Unix passwd command. (Jorge Pereira)
> +
> @@ -5 +10,19 @@
> -	+ Bug #534262 – cyclic clipboard propagation.
> +
> +	+ Bug #534262 - cyclic clipboard propagation (Jonh Wendell)
> +	+ Minor bug fixes
> +
> +  Translations
> +
> +	+ Djihed Afifi (ar)
> +	+ Rostislav "zbrox" Raykov (bg)> [...]

Instead of like this:
> --- vino-2.22.2/NEWS	2008-07-25 11:16:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ vino-2.23.5/NEWS	2008-07-25 11:11:13.000000000 +0100
> @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> +Vino 2.23.5
> +============
> +
> +  Features
> +
> +	+ New command-line tool, vino-passwd, which allows you to change
> +	vino password. Similar to Unix passwd command. (Jorge Pereira)
> +
> +  Fixes
> +
> +	+ Bug #534262 - cyclic clipboard propagation (Jonh Wendell)
> +	+ Minor bug fixes
> +
> +  Translations
> +
> +	+ Djihed Afifi (ar)
> +	+ Rostislav "zbrox" Raykov (bg) [...]

Regards,
-- 
Iain Nicol
<http://iainnicol.com/>