Re: request for freeze breakage - gok

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le mercredi 08 septembre 2004 à 14:03 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> >> What will the user experience in this case? Or, what does the bug look
> >> like in practice?
> >
> > 1) User who does 'make install': no build impact, but 17 strings go
> > untranslated for end users.
> >
> > 2) User/maintainer who manually runs m4 (as documented in
> > gok-with-references.schemas.in): build breakage and/or runtime breakage
> > after manually regenerating the .schemas.in file.: GOK won't run
> > afterwards.
> >
> > #2 is not a common case; by that logic, fixing the macro is both
> > low-risk and low-urgency.  But since it's a build-ish scenario, we
> > thought release-team should be informed of the issue.
> >
> > Personally I think there's no harm in fixing the macro, since in
> > scenario #1 the change to the macro will have no effect, since the
> > patched file isn't touched at all, and in scenario #2 we go from 'very
> > broken' to 'missing a few translations'.
> 
> OK, I don't really care about risks to #2 [1], so if the change really
> does not affect #1, then here's 1 approval of a necessary 2.
> 
> [1] It sounds like something that distros might want to do, but they get
> to fix small things later anyway.

Second approval..

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
Mandrakesoft