Re: Reminder : do NOT hardcode deprecation flags in tarball / new tarballs NEEDED

[Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro gmail com>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com> wrote:

Le 12/01/2010 18:50, Frederic Crozat a écrit :

Hi everyone,

just a quick reminder about deprecation flags and tarball release :
please avoid at all cost to hardcode deprecation flags in compilation
flags, when a module is built from a tarball (it is ok to have such
flags when building from gi checkout).

Why, you may ask ?

Well, I'm currently strugling with smoketesting GNOME 2.29.5 release and
there are some tarballs no longer building because new G_SEAL
deprecation were added in yesterday GTK+ 2.19.3 release and some modules
were not fixed for this.

Current guilty modules :
- vte (bedhad is cooking a new release)
- gnome-utils

In a similar idea, try to avoid releasing tarballs which depends on
other unreleased tarball module version.

Since I'm the release team member taking care of 2.29.92 release, I'm going to rant again against modules which are hardcoding deprecation flags in their configure.in (or Makefile.am), even when building from tarballs. Please, avoid that, it is killing us, since many released modules are not building with latest gtk+ 2.19.7 (new deprecated added). If you want to use deprecation flags, check in configure.in if you are in a git checkout and enable them in that case, but do not enable them by default in tarballs.

Current guilty modules, which needs a new release NOW (this is blocking GNOME 2.29.92 release):
-gnome-python-desktop (doesn't build with latest totem-pl-parser, it seems)

I am not aware of gnome-python-desktop 2.29.1 failing to build with newest totem-pl-parser.  Just tried jhbuilding both, it works fine.

 

-clutter-gtk
-evince
-gconf-editor
-gucharmap
-gnome-mag
-gnome-terminal

Thanks you for you attention.

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Frederic Crozat
Mandriva
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