Re: GNOME 2.91.90 build issues (tracker, network-manager-applet, libpeas)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 21:32 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > This looks like you're using a tarball for the build instead of upstream
> > jhbuild's module that pulls from git master?  I can't seem to find
> 
> This is because we release GNOME versions as a set of tarballs; and we
> produce individual modulesets targetting those, see this one for an
> example:
>   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.91.90/gnome-suites-core-2.91.90.modules
> 
> This is also why the release team publishes a schedule, sends
> "tarballs due" emails, nag people for tarballs, etc.  And that's why
> if you want to be be a core GNOME module, you should follow the
> schedule, publish tarballs in due time, etc.

Well, it's not really a core gnome module and will eventually be
supplanted by the shell's built-in indicator applet.  Yes, we do need a
tarball release off git master.  But clearly including code from
branches that are not meant to be used with latest GNOME isn't going to
work...

Dan