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

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 11:06 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Please, we need new tarballs which build with gtk+ 2.19.7. This is 
> blocking 2.29.92 release.

I've been in Portland all week with a flaky connection, and today I'm
traveling back to the UK. I already started spinning a 0.10.4 release
that builds with 2.19.5 and without the deprecations, but:

  • it requires clutter 1.2
  • I've been notified by Bastien that gnome-games started using
clutter-gtk 0.90

the first issue means bumping the required version of clutter in the
external dependencies list; the second requires that gnome-games stays
with clutter-gtk 0.10. I can't release clutter-gtk master as 1.0 yet
because it requires more work on the API; I committed to a clutter-gtk
1.0 release for April, but I simply cannot make it in time for GNOME's
2.30 release.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

> -------- Message original --------
> Sujet: Re: Reminder : do NOT hardcode deprecation flags in tarball / 
> new	tarballs NEEDED
> Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:05:53 +0100
> De : Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
> Organisation : Mandriva
> Pour : desktop-devel-list gnome org
> 
> 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)
> -clutter-gtk
> -evince
> -gconf-editor
> -gucharmap
> -gnome-mag
> -gnome-terminal
> 
> Thanks you for you attention.
> 

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Emmanuele Bassi, Open Source Software Engineer
Intel Open Source Technology Center