Re: [Evolution] ~/.xsession-errors

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf alice-dsl net>]

On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:15 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 20:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > yes, all warnings are harmless, I missed to snip the above warnings
> > after pasting. Annoying is only that ~/.xsession-errors increases that
> > much by the set_id WebKit warnings. I don't care about the disc space,
> > but it's not pleasant to check .xsession-errors with KiBs of irrelevant
> > warnings, assumed there should be an issue. And from time to time I take
> > a look at .xsession-errors only to see if there's something going wrong,
> > I didn't notice.
>
> Yeah, what WebKit is doing there is wrong and they need to stop that
> immediately.  Issuing a warning for calling a deprecated function is
> fine at build time but serves no purpose at run time since end users
> can't do anything about it.
>
> The problem is the function it wants us to call was added to WebKit only
> very recently, in a version that far exceeds our minimum requirement for
> building Evolution.  I'll see if I can hack in some WebKit version check
> to silence it for the time being.

Thank you,

btw. I can live with

grep -v"set_id method on WebKit" .xsession-errors

and similar sorting ;).

Regards,
Ralf