Re: Break string freeze for GDM 2.20

["Deniz Koçak" <lenduha gmail com>]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> wrote:
> Le vendredi 29 février 2008 à 15:37 -0600, Brian Cameron a écrit :
>
> > I would like to request a string freeze break for GDM 2.20.  Since
>  > GDM 2.22 was not approved for inclusion in GNOME 2.22, I would like
>  > to get some fixes into GDM 2.20 that would be nice to address, but
>  > affect strings.  I plan to do a new GDM 2.20 release sometime in
>  > the near future so that people can get the latest bug fixes when
>  > they upgrade to GNOME 2.22.
>  >
>  > Can I get approval to fix the following bugs with the attached
>  > patches?
>  >
>  > - The documentation needs to be updated to explain that the Custom
>  >    Widgetry interface broke slightly due to moving away from using
>  >    vicious-extensions and moving towards gkeyfile.
>  >
>  > - Bug 477881, fix GDM to honor the default password character
>  >    rather than hardcoding it to the '*' character
>  >
>  >    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477881
>
>  As this contains some security implication, I would say this is worth
>  committing, as if we don't do it upstream, distros will patch
>  downstream...
>  Approval 1 of 2 for i18n.
>
>
>  > - Improve tooltip in gdmgreeter
>  >
>  >    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389734
>  >
>  >    I notice that, by accident, I committed the 2nd patch (tt.diff)
>  >    to GDM 2.20.3.  If I don't get approval, I can back this out
>  >    of the next release.
>
>  This one seems minor to me. But if the first change is approved, I think
>  we could also let one more string.
>
>  Claude

Approval 2 of 2.